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 …

A highly unstable Holocene climate in the subpolar North Atlantic: evidence from diatoms

C Andersen, N Koc, M Moros - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2004 - Elsevier
A composite record (LO09-14) of three sediment cores from the subpolar North Atlantic
(Reykjanes Ridge) was investigated in order to assess surface ocean variability during the …

[HTML][HTML] North Atlantic simulations with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM): Impact of the vertical coordinate choice, reference pressure, and thermobaricity

EP Chassignet, LT Smith… - Journal of Physical …, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
North Atlantic Simulations with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM): Impact of the
Vertical Coordinate Choice, Reference Pressure, and Thermobaricity in: Journal of Physical …

[HTML][HTML] Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A new international ocean observing system

MS Lozier, S Bacon, AS Bower… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing
System in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 98 Issue 4 (2017) Jump …

Hydrographic changes in the Labrador Sea, 1960–2005

I Yashayaev - Progress in Oceanography, 2007 - Elsevier
The Labrador Sea has exhibited significant temperature and salinity variations over the past
five decades. The whole basin was extremely warm and salty between the mid-1960s and …

The Finite Element Sea Ice-Ocean Model (FESOM) v. 1.4: formulation of an ocean general circulation model

Q Wang, S Danilov, D Sidorenko… - Geoscientific Model …, 2014 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Finite Element Sea Ice-Ocean Model (FESOM) is the first global ocean general
circulation model based on unstructured-mesh methods that has been developed for the …

An outsized role for the Labrador Sea in the multidecadal variability of the Atlantic overturning circulation

S Yeager, F Castruccio, P Chang, G Danabasoglu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Climate models are essential tools for investigating intrinsic North Atlantic variability related
to variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), but recent …

Deep convection in the Irminger Sea forced by the Greenland tip jet

RS Pickart, MA Spall, MH Ribergaard, GWK Moore… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Open-ocean deep convection, one of the processes by which deep waters of the world's
oceans are formed, is restricted to a small number of locations (for example, the …

Arrival of new great salinity anomaly weakens convection in the Irminger Sea

TC Biló, F Straneo, J Holte… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Subpolar North Atlantic is prone to recurrent extreme freshening events called
Great Salinity Anomalies (GSAs). Here, we combine hydrographic ocean analyses and …

Surprising return of deep convection to the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean in winter 2007–2008

K Våge, RS Pickart, V Thierry, G Reverdin, CM Lee… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
In the process of open-ocean convection in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean, surface water
sinks to depth as a distinct water mass, the characteristics of which affect the meridional …