Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review

MW Buckley, J Marshall - Reviews of Geophysics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This is a review about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), its mean
structure, temporal variability, controlling mechanisms, and role in the coupled climate …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Measuring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26 N

GD McCarthy, DA Smeed, WE Johns… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a key role in the
global climate system through its redistribution of heat. Changes in the AMOC have been …

Ocean impact on decadal Atlantic climate variability revealed by sea-level observations

GD McCarthy, ID Haigh, JJM Hirschi, JP Grist… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Decadal variability is a notable feature of the Atlantic Ocean and the climate of the regions it
influences. Prominently, this is manifested in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) in …

Observing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation yields a decade of inevitable surprises

MA Srokosz, HL Bryden - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND A 2002 report, Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises, highlighted the
North Atlantic circulation as possibly subject to abrupt change in a warming climate …

Causes of the rapid warming of the North Atlantic Ocean in the mid-1990s

J Robson, R Sutton, K Lohmann, D Smith… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
In the mid-1990s, the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic underwent a remarkable rapid
warming, with sea surface temperatures increasing by around 1° C in just 2 yr. This rapid …

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in high‐resolution models

JJM Hirschi, B Barnier, C Böning… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) represents the zonally integrated
stream function of meridional volume transport in the Atlantic Basin. The AMOC plays an …

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 …

Pending recovery in the strength of the meridional overturning circulation at 26 N

BI Moat, DA Smeed, E Frajka-Williams… - Ocean …, 2020 - os.copernicus.org
The strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) at 26∘ N has now
been continuously measured by the RAPID array over the period April 2004–September …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5 N

T Kanzow, SA Cunningham, WE Johns… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) makes the strongest oceanic
contribution to the meridional redistribution of heat. Here, an observation-based, 48-month …