Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

  • N. Penny Holliday,
  • Manfred Bersch,
  • Barbara Berx,
  • Léon Chafik,
  • Stuart Cunningham,
  • Cristian Florindo-López,
  • Hjálmar Hátún,
  • William Johns,
  • Simon A. Josey,
  • Karin Margretha H. Larsen,
  • Sandrine Mulet,
  • Marilena Oltmanns,
  • Gilles Reverdin,
  • Tom Rossby,
  • Virginie Thierry,
  • Hedinn Valdimarsson,
  • Igor Yashayaev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14474-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation is important to the global climate system. Here the authors show that eastern subpolar North Atlantic underwent extreme freshening during 2012 to 2016, with a magnitude never seen before in 120 years of surface measurements.

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