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 …

The northern North Atlantic Ocean mean circulation in the early 21st century

N Daniault, H Mercier, P Lherminier, A Sarafanov… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
The decadal mean circulation in the northern North Atlantic was assessed for the early 21st
century from repeated ship-based measurements along the Greenland-Portugal OVIDE line …

[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 …

Overturning in the north atlantic

MS Lozier - Annual review of marine science, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The global overturning of ocean waters involves the equatorward transport of cold, deep
waters and the poleward transport of warm, near-surface waters. Such movement creates a …

Studies of Labrador Sea Water formation and variability in the subpolar North Atlantic in the light of international partnership and collaboration

D Kieke, I Yashayaev - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Labrador Sea Water (LSW), the lightest contribution to North Atlantic Deep Water
(NADW) and one of the most prominent water masses of the subpolar North Atlantic, has …

The Irminger Gyre: Circulation, convection, and interannual variability

K Våge, RS Pickart, A Sarafanov, Ø Knutsen… - Deep Sea Research …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this study 36 hydrographic transects occupied between 1991 and 2007 in the vicinity of
the WOCE A1E/AR7E section are used to investigate various aspects of the Irminger Gyre, a …

Horizontal circulation across density surfaces contributes substantially to the long-term mean northern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

R Zhang, M Thomas - Communications Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Greenland Sea is often viewed as the northern terminus of the Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation. It has also been proposed that the shutdown of open …

Mean full‐depth summer circulation and transports at the northern periphery of the Atlantic Ocean in the 2000s

A Sarafanov, A Falina, H Mercier… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A mean state of the full‐depth summer circulation in the Atlantic Ocean in the region in
between Cape Farewell (Greenland), Scotland and the Greenland‐Scotland Ridge (GSR) is …

[HTML][HTML] Variability of the meridional overturning in the North Atlantic from the 50-year GECCO state estimation

A Köhl, D Stammer - Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Variability of the Meridional Overturning in the North Atlantic from the 50-Year GECCO State
Estimation in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 38 Issue 9 (2008) Jump to …

[HTML][HTML] Oxygen export to the deep ocean following Labrador Sea Water formation

J Koelling, D Atamanchuk, J Karstensen… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Abstract The Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean is one of the few regions globally
where oxygen from the atmosphere can reach the deep ocean directly. This is the result of …