INCREASING attention has been given in recent years to the overflow of cold bottom water, formed by winter cooling in the Norwegian Sea, across the various submarine ridges separating the basin of the Norwegian Sea from that of the Atlantic Ocean. In June 1960, under the auspices of the Inter...
The Gulf Stream, which runs like a friendly blue river across the cold green Atlantic Ocean, is one of the mightiest powers in the worlD. By comparison, the Mississippi and the mighty Amazon are but small rivers. Two million tons of coal burned every minute would not equal the heat that...
Barcelona and London both lie north of New York, yet winters in these two European cities are warmer than winters in the northeastern United States (Fig. 1). It would seem easy to attribute this difference simply to the fact that Europe lies downwind of the warm North Atlantic Ocean. But ...
Ocean climate of the South East Atlantic observed from satellite data and wind models The near-coastal South East Atlantic Ocean off Africa is a unique and highly dynamic environment, comprising the cool Benguela Current, warm Angola Current... NJ Hardman-Mountford,AJ Richardson,JJ Agenbag,......
Although the ocean model is a useful tool to evaluate the impact of the atmospheric forcing in each season, there are no past studies having examined ocean model responses respectively to the cold- and warm-season atmospheric forcing. In this study, we performed numerical experiments with an ...
The Younger Dryas (YD) cold interval is one of the most abrupt climate events of Earth's recent history. The origin of this rapid, severe cooling episode is still widely debated, but it was probably triggered by a large freshwater influx to the North Atlantic resulting in disruption of the...
The ACC is the longest current in the world, and has the largest flow. Through it, the deep flows of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans are joined to form part of a single global thermohaline circulation, During winter, the howling katabatics sometimes scour the ice off patches of ...
Conversely, in other subregions and globally, although MLD generally deepens with increasing MCS intensity, the extent of this deepening gradually diminishes. Remarkably, an intriguing phenomenon emerges in the Atlantic Ocean (Figures 3f and 3h), Indian Ocean (Figures 3j and 3l), and globally (...
The anomalous cooling over the ocean can persist even after the STJ moves north prior to monsoon onset, owing to the higher heat capacity of the ocean. The persisting cold anomaly over the northern Indian Ocean can hamper the development of mon- soon in its early phase. However, the role ...
Due to its large northward heat transport, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation influences both weather and climate at the mid-latitude Northern Hemisphere. Here we use a state-of-the-art global weather/climate modeling system with high resolu