The Role of Atlantic Basin Geometry in Meridional Overturning Circulation

Climatology data for manuscript: "The Role of Atlantic Basin Geometry in Meridional Overturning Circulation" We present idealized simulations to explore how the shape of eastern and western continental boundaries along the Atlantic influence the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ragen, Sarah
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2021
Subjects:
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5544531
https://zenodo.org/record/5544531
Description
Summary:Climatology data for manuscript: "The Role of Atlantic Basin Geometry in Meridional Overturning Circulation" We present idealized simulations to explore how the shape of eastern and western continental boundaries along the Atlantic influence the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). We use a state-of-the art ocean—sea-ice model (MOM6 and SIS2) with idealized, zonally-symmetric surface forcing and a range of idealized continental configurations with a large, Pacific-like basin and a small, Atlantic-like basin. We perform simulations with five coastline geometries along the Atlantic-like basin that range from coastlines that are straight to coastlines shaped like the coasts of the American and African continents.