The Surface-Forced Overturning of the North Atlantic: Estimates from Modern Era Atmospheric Reanalysis Datasets

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Authors: Grist, Jeremy P., Josey, Simon A., Marsh, Robert, Kwon, Young-Oh, Bingham, Rory J., Blaker, Adam T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Merra; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506838/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/506838/1/JCLI-D-13-00070-Grist.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00070.1

Estimates of the recent mean and time varying water mass transformation rates associated with North Atlantic surface-forced overturning are presented. The estimates are derived from heat and freshwater surface fluxes and sea surface temperature fields from six atmospheric reanalyses (JRA, NCEP-1, NC...