Reassessing the Role of the Indoâ€Pacific in the Ocean's Global Overturning Circulation

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Newsom, Emily R., Thompson, Andrew F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: global ocean overturning circulation; oceanâ€atmosphere interactions; ocean thermodynamics; climate modeling; global oceanic teleconnections; Adkins; Pacific; Southern Ocean; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl080350

Surface buoyancy fluxes in the Southern and North Atlantic Oceans are presumed to disproportionately influence the ocean's residual global overturning circulation (GOC) with respect to those in the Indoâ€Pacific. Here, this assumption is challenged through an assessment of global buoyancy trans...