Human-induced changes in the global meridional overturning circulation are emerging from the Southern Ocean

Anthropogenically-induced changes in the global meridional overturning circulation since the 1950s have led the upper overturning cell in the Southern Ocean to expand and strengthen while the lower cell has contracted and weakened, according to diagnostic model simulations. 1852977 DE-SC0022070

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Published in:Communications Earth & Environment
Other Authors: Lee, Sang-Ki (author), Lumpkin, Rick (author), Gomez, Fabian (author), Yeager, Stephen (author), Lopez, Hosmay (author), Takglis, Filippos (author), Dong, Shenfu (author), Aguiar, Wilton (author), Kim, Dongmin (author), Baringer, Molly (author)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00727-3
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Summary:Anthropogenically-induced changes in the global meridional overturning circulation since the 1950s have led the upper overturning cell in the Southern Ocean to expand and strengthen while the lower cell has contracted and weakened, according to diagnostic model simulations. 1852977 DE-SC0022070