2012 Project Summary Sensitivity Patterns of Atlantic Meridional Overturning and Related Climate Diagnostics over the Instrumental Period

The long-‐term goals are to understand, with a comprehensive data set and a state-‐of-‐the-‐art ocean model, the nature of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, with a particular emphasis on its decadal variability and climate consequences. The so-‐called meridional overturning circulation (MOC) is...

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Main Authors: Pis Patrick Heimbach, Rui P. Ponte, Carl Wunsch
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.433.7254
http://www.usclivar.org/sites/default/files/amoc/Heimbach_2012AMOC_projsum.pdf