Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: Observed transport and variability

E Frajka-Williams, IJ Ansorge, J Baehr… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) extends from the Southern Ocean to
the northern North Atlantic, transporting heat northwards throughout the South and North …

Recent contributions of theory to our understanding of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

HL Johnson, P Cessi, DP Marshall… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Revolutionary observational arrays, together with a new generation of ocean and climate
models, have provided new and intriguing insights into the Atlantic Meridional Overturning …

The GFDL global ocean and sea ice model OM4. 0: Model description and simulation features

A Adcroft, W Anderson, V Balaji… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We document the configuration and emergent simulation features from the Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) OM4. 0 ocean/sea ice model. OM4 serves as the …

Structure and performance of GFDL's CM4. 0 climate model

IM Held, H Guo, A Adcroft, JP Dunne… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We describe the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's CM4. 0 physical climate
model, with emphasis on those aspects that may be of particular importance to users of this …

The water mass transformation framework for ocean physics and biogeochemistry

S Groeskamp, SM Griffies, D Iudicone… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The water mass transformation (WMT) framework weaves together circulation,
thermodynamics, and biogeochemistry into a description of the ocean that complements …

The recent Atlantic cold anomaly: Causes, consequences, and related phenomena

SA Josey, JJM Hirschi, B Sinha… - Annual Review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Cold ocean temperature anomalies have been observed in the mid-to high-latitude North
Atlantic on interannual to centennial timescales. Most notably, a large region of persistently …

Ocean reanalyses: recent advances and unsolved challenges

A Storto, A Alvera-Azcárate, MA Balmaseda… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean reanalyses combine ocean models, atmospheric forcing fluxes, and observations
using data assimilation to give a four-dimensional description of the ocean. Metrics …

Emerging negative Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation index in spite of warm subtropics

E Frajka-Williams, C Beaulieu, A Duchez - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Sea surface temperatures in the northern North Atlantic have shown a marked decrease
over the past several years. The sea surface in the subpolar gyre is now as cold as it was …

Mixing and air–sea buoyancy fluxes set the time-mean overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic and Nordic Seas

DG Evans, NP Holliday, S Bacon, I Le Bras - Ocean Science, 2023 - os.copernicus.org
The overturning streamfunction as measured at the OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar
North Atlantic Program) mooring array represents the transformation of warm, salty Atlantic …

The mean state and variability of the North Atlantic circulation: A perspective from ocean reanalyses

LC Jackson, C Dubois, G Forget… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The observational network around the North Atlantic has improved significantly over the last
few decades with subsurface profiling floats and satellite observations and the recent efforts …