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An outsized role for the Labrador Sea in the multidecadal variability of the Atlantic overturning circulation.

ABSTRACT: [Figure: see text].

SUBMITTER: Yeager S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494296 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An outsized role for the Labrador Sea in the multidecadal variability of the Atlantic overturning circulation.

Yeager Stephen S Castruccio Fred F Chang Ping P Danabasoglu Gokhan G Maroon Elizabeth E Small Justin J Wang Hong H Wu Lixin L Zhang Shaoqing S

Science advances 20211006 41

Climate models are essential tools for investigating intrinsic North Atlantic variability related to variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), but recent observations have called into question the fidelity of models that emphasize the importance of Labrador Sea processes. A multicentury preindustrial climate simulation that resolves ocean mesoscale eddies has a realistic representation of key observed subpolar Atlantic phenomena, including the dominance of density-spa ...[more]

PMID: 34613764

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