Meridional coherence of the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Bingham, R. J., Hughes, C., Roussenov, V., Williams, R. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Bingham; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/2760/

The North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) is associated with deep water formation at high latitudes, and climatically-important ocean-atmosphere heat fluxes, hence the current substantial effort to monitor the MOC. While it is expected that, on sufficiently long time scales, variat...