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Decadal Evolution of Ocean Thermal Anomalies in the North Atlantic: The Effects of Ekman, Overturning, and Horizontal Transport
Description: Basin-scale thermal anomalies in the North Atlantic, extending to depths of 1-2 km, are more pronounced than the background warming over the last 60 years. A dynamical analysis based on reanalyses of historical data from 1965 to 2000 suggests that these thermal anomalies are formed by ocean heat convergences, augmented by the poorly known air-sea fluxes. The heat convergence is separated into contributions from the horizontal circulation and the meridional overturning circulation (MOC), the latter further separated into Ekman and MOC transport minus Ekman transport (MOC-Ekman) cells. [Source: Journal of Climate]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00234.1
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Source: Journal of Climate
Publish Date: 1/15/2014
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