Satellite

The Ross Gyre is one of the main current systems of the Southern Ocean and conveys heat toward the cold continental shelves of the …

The Labrador Sea is one of a small number of deep convection sites in the North Atlantic, that contribute to the meridional overturning …

The importance of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) resides in its associated poleward movement of heat (Bryden et …

Sea surface temperatures in the northern North Atlantic have shown a marked decrease over the past several years. The sea surface in …

Phytoplankton in the ocean are a key component of the global carbon cycle and the base of most marine food webs. They contribute …

The North Atlantic and Europe experienced two extreme climate events in 2015: exceptionally cold ocean surface temperatures and a …

Despite the major role played by mesoscale eddies in redistributing the energy of the large-scale circulation, our understanding of …

A statistical relationship between satellite sea surface height (SSH) and observed transports at 26°N is used to build a proxy for the AMOC transport since 1992. The method relies on a strong relationship between (1) the interannual variability of spatially-smoothed SSH at the western boundary of the Atlantic and (2) the RAPID 26°N estimate of upper mid-ocean transport (UMO, top ~1100m) across the Atlantic. Explained variance is very high, but the method assumes stationarity in the relationship between SSH and UMO, which would likely be violated on longer timescales associated with e.g., deep watermass change.

The meridional overturning circulation (MOC) at inline image in the Atlantic has a standard deviation of 4.9 Sv and contains large …

The Gulf Stream in the Atlantic carries warm water northwards and forms both the return closure of the subtropical gyre as well as the …