Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling
The meridional overturning circulation of the ocean plays a central role in climate and climate variability by storing and transporting heat, fresh water and carbon around the globe. Historically, the focus of research has been on the North Atlantic Basin, a primary site where water sinks from the s...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:889555 2024-09-15T18:21:40+00:00 Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling Marshall, John Speer, Kevin 2012-02-26 https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1391 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1391 oai:zenodo.org:889555 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Other (Open) info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2012 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1391 2024-07-25T14:06:42Z The meridional overturning circulation of the ocean plays a central role in climate and climate variability by storing and transporting heat, fresh water and carbon around the globe. Historically, the focus of research has been on the North Atlantic Basin, a primary site where water sinks from the surface to depth, triggered by loss of heat, and therefore buoyancy, to the atmosphere. A key part of the overturning puzzle, however, is the return path from the interior ocean to the surface through upwelling in the Southern Ocean. This return path is largely driven by winds. It has become clear over the past few years that the importance of Southern Ocean upwelling for our understanding of climate rivals that of North Atlantic downwelling, because it controls the rate at which ocean reservoirs of heat and carbon communicate with the surface. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Southern Ocean Zenodo Nature Geoscience 5 3 171 180 |
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The meridional overturning circulation of the ocean plays a central role in climate and climate variability by storing and transporting heat, fresh water and carbon around the globe. Historically, the focus of research has been on the North Atlantic Basin, a primary site where water sinks from the surface to depth, triggered by loss of heat, and therefore buoyancy, to the atmosphere. A key part of the overturning puzzle, however, is the return path from the interior ocean to the surface through upwelling in the Southern Ocean. This return path is largely driven by winds. It has become clear over the past few years that the importance of Southern Ocean upwelling for our understanding of climate rivals that of North Atlantic downwelling, because it controls the rate at which ocean reservoirs of heat and carbon communicate with the surface. |
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Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling |
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