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: https://hdl.handle.net/1983/1bd9457a-aae5-469e-88b5-7195dd7b1bc7; https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/1bd9457a-aae5-469e-88b5-7195dd7b1bc7; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00070.1; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84899092210&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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-the Japanese 25-...