A monitoring design for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Details A monitoring design for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation A monitoring design for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30g..66h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 7, pp. 66-1, CiteID 1413, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016776

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Oceanography: Physical: General Circulation, Oceanography: Physical: Instruments And Techniques, Oceanography: Physical: Western Boundary Currents

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Current hydrographic data can provide snapshots but no continuous timeseries of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC). Using output from two eddy-permitting numerical ocean models we test the feasibility of a monitoring system for the MOC in the North Atlantic. The results suggest that a relatively simple arrangement, using moorings placed across a longitude-depth section and the zonal wind stress, is able to capture most of the MOC strength and vertical structure as a function of time. Being closely related to the transport of energy to the North Atlantic, measuring the MOC would open the prospect of having continuous information about a key element of northern hemisphere climate.

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