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
Affiliations
- N. Penny Holliday
- National Oceanography Centre
- Manfred Bersch
- Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg
- Barbara Berx
- Marine Scotland Science
- Léon Chafik
- Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University
- Stuart Cunningham
- Scottish Association for Marine Science
- Cristian Florindo-López
- National Oceanography Centre
- Hjálmar Hátún
- Faroe Marine Research Institute
- William Johns
- Department of Ocean Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Simon A. Josey
- National Oceanography Centre
- Karin Margretha H. Larsen
- Faroe Marine Research Institute
- Sandrine Mulet
- CLS
- Marilena Oltmanns
- Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
- Gilles Reverdin
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS/IRD/MNHN (LOCEAN)
- Tom Rossby
- Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island
- Virginie Thierry
- Ifremer, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale
- Hedinn Valdimarsson
- Marine and Freshwater Research Institute
- Igor Yashayaev
- Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14474-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 15
Abstract
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.
