Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

The Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation is important to the global climate system. Here the authors show that eastern subpolar North Atlantic underwent extreme freshening during 2012 to 2016, with a magnitude never seen before in 120 years of surface measurements.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: N. Penny Holliday, Manfred Bersch, Barbara Berx, Léon Chafik, Stuart Cunningham, Cristian Florindo-López, Hjálmar Hátún, William Johns, Simon A. Josey, Karin Margretha H. Larsen, Sandrine Mulet, Marilena Oltmanns, Gilles Reverdin, Tom Rossby, Virginie Thierry, Hedinn Valdimarsson, Igor Yashayaev
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Science
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North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14474-y
https://doaj.org/article/8bfa1e0bf16a4417916ee3992950ed5b
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Summary:The Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation is important to the global climate system. Here the authors show that eastern subpolar North Atlantic underwent extreme freshening during 2012 to 2016, with a magnitude never seen before in 120 years of surface measurements.

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