Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Indian Ocean warming as a driver of the North Atlantic warming hole

  • Shineng Hu,
  • Alexey V. Fedorov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18522-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

Read online

A significant part of the subpolar North Atlantic has warmed less over the past century than the rest of the global ocean, a feature called the North Atlantic warming hole. Here, the authors show that this anomaly can be explained by remote atmospheric forcing from the rapidly warming Indian Ocean.