Impact of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on ocean heat storage and transient climate change

We propose here that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) plays an important role in setting the effective heat capacity of the World Ocean and thus impacts the pace of transient climate change. The depth and strength of AMOC are shown to be strongly correlated with the depth of he...

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Main Authors: Armour, Kyle C. (Contributor), Kostov, Yavor Krasimirov (Contributor), Marshall, John C. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2015-07-24T12:06:33Z.
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