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Lozier, M. Susan; Bacon, Sheldon; Bower, Amy S.; Cunningham, Stuart A.; De Jong, M. Femke; De Steur, Laura; Deyoung, Brad; Fischer, Juergen; Gary, Stefan F.; Greenan, Blair J. W.; Heimbach, Patrick; Holliday, Naomi P.; Houpert, Loic; Inall, Mark E.; Johns, William E.; Johnson, Helen L.; Karstensen, Johannes; Li, Feili; Lin, Xiaopei; Mackay, Neill; Marshall, David P.; Mercier, Herle; Myers, Paul G.; Pickart, Robert S.; Pillar, Helen R.; Straneo, Fiammetta; Thierry, Virginie; Weller, Robert A.; Williams, Richard G.; Wilson, Chris; Yang, Jiayan; Zhao, Jian; Zika, Jan D.. |
A new ocean observing system has been launched in the North Atlantic in order to understand the linkage between the meridional overturning circulation and deep water formation. For decades oceanographers have understood the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to be primarily driven by changes in the production of deep water formation in the subpolar and subarctic North Atlantic. Indeed, current IPCC projections of an AMOC slowdown in the 21st century based on climate models are attributed to the inhibition of deep convection in the North Atlantic. However, observational evidence for this linkage has been elusive: there has been no clear demonstration of AMOC variability in response to changes in deep water formation. The motivation for... |
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Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00358/46881/46764.pdf |
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Frajka-williams, Eleanor; Ansorge, Isabelle J.; Baehr, Johanna; Bryden, Harry L.; Chidichimo, Maria Paz; Cunningham, Stuart A.; Danabasoglu, Gokhan; Dong, Shenfu; Donohue, Kathleen A.; Elipot, Shane; Heimbach, Patrick; Holliday, N. Penny; Hummels, Rebecca; Jackson, Laura C.; Karstensen, Johannes; Lankhorst, Matthias; Le Bras, Isabela A.; Lozier, M. Susan; Mcdonagh, Elaine L.; Meinen, Christopher S.; Mercier, Herle; Moat, Bengamin I.; Perez, Renellys C; Piecuch, Christopher G.; Rhein, Monika; Srokosz, Meric A.; Trenberth, Kevin E.; Bacon, Sheldon; Forget, Gael; Goni, Gustavo; Kieke, Dagmar; Koelling, Jannes; Lamont, Tarron; Mccarthy, Gerard D.; Mertens, Christian; Send, Uwe; Smeed, David A.; Speich, Sabrina; Van Den Berg, Marcel; Volkov, Denis; Wilson, Chris. |
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) extends from the Southern Ocean to the northern North Atlantic, transporting heat northwards throughout the South and North Atlantic, and sinking carbon and nutrients into the deep ocean. Climate models indicate that changes to the AMOC both herald and drive climate shifts. Intensive trans-basin AMOC observational systems have been put in place to continuously monitor meridional volume transport variability, and in some cases, heat, freshwater and carbon transport. These observational programs have been used to diagnose the magnitude and origins of transport variability, and to investigate impacts of variability on essential climate variables such as sea surface temperature, ocean heat content and... |
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Palavras-chave: Meridional overturning circulation; Thermohaline circulation; Observing systems; Ocean heat transport; Carbon storage; Moorings; Circulation variability. |
Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00503/61507/65342.pdf |
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