As their colleague Prof Torsten Kanzow from the AWI adds: “Generally speaking, we consider the warm-water inflow into the cavern below the 79° N Glacier to be part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Forecasts indicate that this thermal conveyor belt could weaken in ...
The cold water upwelling and equatorward advection that occurs at the eastern boundaries of the basin and the warm water poleward heat transport at the western boundaries generally cause a deepening of the high pressure in the east and an intensification of deep convection in the west [Seager ...
The unseasonable warmth, which has broken records inAdelaide and Sydney, appears to be driven by highocean temperatures, and weaker westerly winds and much lower than average soil moisture across southern Australia. The rainfall outlook for May is mixed, but generally shows no strong shift towards...