Overturning circulation
Local partitioning of the overturning circulation in the tropics and the connection to the Hadley and Walker circulations
... tropical overturning circulation into the zonal and meridional circulations has been sought as, in the past, the methods used to partition these circulations have been mostly ad ...with overturning ...
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Decadal variability of the subtropical gyre and deep meridional overturning circulation of the Indian Ocean
... The circulation regimes that show some residual deep overturning all manage to preserve zonal gradients in the ocean interior, to a greater or lesser ...
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CLIVAR Exchanges No 24 Special issue on: CLIVAR Pacific
... meridional overturning circulation (MOC) transforma- tion and North Atlantic Deep Water pulse effects on tropi- cal Atlantic Variability, modelling studies on the role of interactions between ocean, ...
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Collapse of the North American ice saddle 14,500 years ago caused widespread cooling and reduced ocean overturning circulation
... Currently, we do not know how (or even if) MWP1a, the Bølling warming, and a possible concurrent rapid strengthening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) [e.g., McManus et al., 2004; ...
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Phytoplankton calcifiers control nitrate cycling and the pace of transition in warming icehouse and cooling greenhouse climates
... of circulation (changing nutrient availability) as they approach the icehouse ...and overturning circulation slows, which allows for more complete reminer- alization of ...
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Collapse of the North American ice saddle 14,500 years ago caused widespread cooling and reduced ocean overturning circulation
... Currently, we do not know how (or even if) MWP1a, the Bølling warming, and a possible concurrent rapid strengthening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) [e.g., McManus et al., 2004; ...
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Mean sea-level variability along the northeast American Atlantic coast and the roles of the wind and the overturning circulation
... Abstract The variability in mean sea level (MSL) during 1950–2009 along the northeast American Atlan- tic coast north of Cape Hatteras has been studied, using data from tide gauges and satellite altimetry and information ...
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The energetics of Southern Ocean upwelling
... meridional overturning circulation is closed by the upwelling of dense, carbon-rich waters to the surface of the Southern ...turning circulation. In this study, the sensitivity of the ...
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Impact of the GeoMIP G1 sunshade geoengineering experiment on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
... Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under an idealized solar radiation management scenario (G1) from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison ...AMOC circulation which furthermore transports ...
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Tracing water masses with 129I and 236U in the subpolar North Atlantic along the GEOTRACES GA01 section
... Abstract. Pathways and timescales of water mass transport in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean (SPNA) have been in- vestigated by many studies due to their importance for the meridional overturning ...
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The Observed North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Its Meridional Coherence and Ocean Bottom Pressure
... Change–Meridional Overturning Circulation (RAPID MOC) array at 26 8 N and from Argo float and altimetry data at 41 8 N reveal that, at semiannual and longer time scales, the contribution from the western ...
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Holocene lowering of the Laurentide ice sheet affects North Atlantic gyre circulation and climate
... Meridional Overturning Circulation) than the effects of ice sheet topography (and extent), which influence surface wind stress and ocean gyre circulation, but do not affect the Atlantic Meridional ...
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Constraining variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 25N from historical observations, 1980 to 2005
... We argue that the best interpretation of interannual variability of the computed Atlantic MOC components at 26.5ºN as a long term trend, is of a 2 Sv reduction in strength between 1980 and 2005. Historical end station ...
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Effects of atmospheric dynamics and ocean resolution on bi stability of the thermohaline circulation examined using the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling (GENIE) framework
... meridional overturning circulation (MOC) imports or exports salt at its southern boundary is thought to determine the stability regime, the argu- ment being that salt import (freshwater export) is required ...
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Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean
... Ocean Circulation Experiment hydrographic atlas [Gouretski and Koltermann, ...wind-driven overturning cells) and is small, but not negligible, below ...the overturning circulation and outcrop ...
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The glacial mid depth radiocarbon bulge and its implications for the overturning circulation
... upper overturning circulation without any signi fi cant ...glacial circulation in the global ocean is dynamically ...model circulation satis fi es momentum and buoyancy equations for a given ...
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Discovery and quantification of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: the importance of 25N
... an overturning circulation of 16-18 Sv at 25ºN has provided a robust description of transports in the subsequent ...slowed overturning recently reported by Bryden et ...
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Geothermal Heating and its Influence on the Meridional Overturning Circulation
... meridional overturning circulation is examined using an idealized, coarse-resolution ocean general circulation ...meridional overturning cell on the order of several Sv is produced, connecting ...
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The location of diapycnal mixing and the meridional overturning circulation
... weaker overturning than the control mixing run: where upwelling occurs, the surface is quite cold, approximately 10ºC colder than neighboring grid points, so the diffusion of heat into the thermocline is far less ...
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QALE-FEM for modelling 3D overturning waves
... near overturning jets presented in §4 and ...of overturning of solitary waves and transient oscillating waves propagating over 3D complex ...example, overturning jets may be guided to occur in some ...
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