Changes in the strength of the Nordic Seas Overflows over the past 3000 years

• Main Authors: Moffa-Sanchez, P, Hall, IR, Thornalley, DJR, Barker, S, Stewart, C
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2015
• Subjects: Physical; geosciences; multidisciplinary; physical geography; geology; late Holocene; North Atlantic; Nordic Overflows; paleoceanography; Denmark strait overflow; Faroe-Bank Channel; Greenland-Scotland ridge; surface temperature variability; North-Atlantic oscillation; revised circulation scheme; Western Boundary current; deep-water; oceanographic variability; Icelandic shelf; Faroe Bank; Greenland; Denmark Strait; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1499144/1/Thornalley_Overflows_29May15_MS.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1499144/

The Nordic Seas Overflows constitute the densest component of the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Changes in the vigour of the overflows may have had important climatic effects in the past and may also have in the future. Yet, evidence for multidecadal to millenn...