Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program : a new international ocean observing system
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/9015 2023-05-15T17:28:52+02:00 Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program : a new international ocean observing system Lozier, M. Susan Bacon, Sheldon Bower, Amy S. Cunningham, Stuart A. de Jong, Marieke Femke de Steur, Laura deYoung, Brad Fischer, Jürgen Gary, Stefan F. Greenan, Blair J. W. Heimbach, Patrick Holliday, Naomi Penny Houpert, Loïc Inall, Mark E. Johns, William E. Johnson, Helen L. Karstensen, Johannes Li, Feili Lin, Xiaopei Mackay, Neill Marshall, David P. Mercier, Herlé Myers, Paul G. Pickart, Robert S. Pillar, Helen R. Straneo, Fiamma Thierry, Virginie Weller, Robert A. Williams, Richard G. Wilson, Christopher G. Yang, Jiayan Zhao, Jian Zika, Jan D. 2017-04-24 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9015 en_US eng American Meteorological Society https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (2017): 737-752 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/9015 doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (2017): 737-752 doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1 Article 2017 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1 2022-05-28T22:59:54Z Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (2017): 737-752, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1. For decades oceanographers have understood the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) to be primarily driven by changes in the production of deep-water formation in the subpolar and subarctic North Atlantic. Indeed, current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections of an AMOC slowdown in the twenty-first century based on climate models are attributed to the inhibition of deep convection in the North Atlantic. However, observational evidence for this linkage has been elusive: there has been no clear demonstration of AMOC variability in response to changes in deep-water formation. The motivation for understanding this linkage is compelling, since the overturning circulation has been shown to sequester heat and anthropogenic carbon in the deep ocean. Furthermore, AMOC variability is expected to impact this sequestration as well as have consequences for regional and global climates through its effect on the poleward transport of warm water. Motivated by the need for a mechanistic understanding of the AMOC, an international community has assembled an observing system, Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP), to provide a continuous record of the transbasin fluxes of heat, mass, and freshwater, and to link that record to convective activity and water mass transformation at high latitudes. OSNAP, in conjunction with the Rapid Climate Change–Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heatflux Array (RAPID–MOCHA) at 26°N and other observational elements, will provide a comprehensive measure of the three-dimensional AMOC and an understanding of what drives its variability. The OSNAP observing system was fully deployed in the summer of 2014, and the first OSNAP data ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Subarctic Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 4 737 752 |
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Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (2017): 737-752, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0057.1. For decades oceanographers have understood the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) to be primarily driven by changes in the production of deep-water formation in the subpolar and subarctic North Atlantic. Indeed, current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections of an AMOC slowdown in the twenty-first century based on climate models are attributed to the inhibition of deep convection in the North Atlantic. However, observational evidence for this linkage has been elusive: there has been no clear demonstration of AMOC variability in response to changes in deep-water formation. The motivation for understanding this linkage is compelling, since the overturning circulation has been shown to sequester heat and anthropogenic carbon in the deep ocean. Furthermore, AMOC variability is expected to impact this sequestration as well as have consequences for regional and global climates through its effect on the poleward transport of warm water. Motivated by the need for a mechanistic understanding of the AMOC, an international community has assembled an observing system, Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP), to provide a continuous record of the transbasin fluxes of heat, mass, and freshwater, and to link that record to convective activity and water mass transformation at high latitudes. OSNAP, in conjunction with the Rapid Climate Change–Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heatflux Array (RAPID–MOCHA) at 26°N and other observational elements, will provide a comprehensive measure of the three-dimensional AMOC and an understanding of what drives its variability. The OSNAP observing system was fully deployed in the summer of 2014, and the first OSNAP data ... |
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Lozier, M. Susan Bacon, Sheldon Bower, Amy S. Cunningham, Stuart A. de Jong, Marieke Femke de Steur, Laura deYoung, Brad Fischer, Jürgen Gary, Stefan F. Greenan, Blair J. W. Heimbach, Patrick Holliday, Naomi Penny Houpert, Loïc Inall, Mark E. Johns, William E. Johnson, Helen L. Karstensen, Johannes Li, Feili Lin, Xiaopei Mackay, Neill Marshall, David P. Mercier, Herlé Myers, Paul G. Pickart, Robert S. Pillar, Helen R. Straneo, Fiamma Thierry, Virginie Weller, Robert A. Williams, Richard G. Wilson, Christopher G. Yang, Jiayan Zhao, Jian Zika, Jan D. |
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Lozier, M. Susan Bacon, Sheldon Bower, Amy S. Cunningham, Stuart A. de Jong, Marieke Femke de Steur, Laura deYoung, Brad Fischer, Jürgen Gary, Stefan F. Greenan, Blair J. W. Heimbach, Patrick Holliday, Naomi Penny Houpert, Loïc Inall, Mark E. Johns, William E. Johnson, Helen L. Karstensen, Johannes Li, Feili Lin, Xiaopei Mackay, Neill Marshall, David P. Mercier, Herlé Myers, Paul G. Pickart, Robert S. Pillar, Helen R. Straneo, Fiamma Thierry, Virginie Weller, Robert A. Williams, Richard G. Wilson, Christopher G. Yang, Jiayan Zhao, Jian Zika, Jan D. Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program : a new international ocean observing system |
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Lozier, M. Susan Bacon, Sheldon Bower, Amy S. Cunningham, Stuart A. de Jong, Marieke Femke de Steur, Laura deYoung, Brad Fischer, Jürgen Gary, Stefan F. Greenan, Blair J. W. Heimbach, Patrick Holliday, Naomi Penny Houpert, Loïc Inall, Mark E. Johns, William E. Johnson, Helen L. Karstensen, Johannes Li, Feili Lin, Xiaopei Mackay, Neill Marshall, David P. Mercier, Herlé Myers, Paul G. Pickart, Robert S. Pillar, Helen R. Straneo, Fiamma Thierry, Virginie Weller, Robert A. Williams, Richard G. Wilson, Christopher G. Yang, Jiayan Zhao, Jian Zika, Jan D. |
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Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program : a new international ocean observing system |
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Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program : a new international ocean observing system |
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Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program : a new international ocean observing system |
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