ArticleScience advances2021
An outsized role for the Labrador Sea in the multidecadal variability of the Atlantic overturning circulation.
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- The Labrador Sea as a conduit for AMOC lower-limb transport anomalies on multiple timescales.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The coupled reanalysis global meridional overturning circulation imprinted by historic volcanic eruptions.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Noise-induced tipping of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under climate mitigation scenarios.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Effects of macro vs. micro initialization and ocean initial-condition memory on the evolution of ensemble spread in the CESM2 large ensemble.Climate dynamics · 2025Article
- Role of the Labrador Current in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation response to greenhouse warming.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Observed mechanisms activating the recent subpolar North Atlantic Warming since 2016.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023Article
- Buoyancy forcing and the subpolar Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023Review
- Overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic: a review.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023Review
- Labrador sea water spreading and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2023Review
- Decadal changes in Atlantic overturning due to the excessive 1990s Labrador Sea convection.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Toward Earth system modeling with resolved clouds and ocean submesoscales on heterogeneous many-core HPCs.National science review · 2023Article
- Future strengthening of the Nordic Seas overturning circulation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Seasonality of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic.Communications earth & environment · 2023Article
- Freshwater Flux Variability Lengthens the Period of the Low-Frequency AMOC Variability.Geophysical research letters · 2022Article
- The Impact of Horizontal Resolution on Projected Sea-Level Rise Along US East Continental Shelf With the Community Earth System Model.Journal of advances in modeling earth systems · 2022Article
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Abstract
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-space overturning in the eastern subpolar gyre, and thus provides uniquely credible context for interpreting short observational records. Despite weak mean surface diapycnal transformation in the Labrador Sea, multidecadal AMOC variability can be traced to anomalous production of dense Labrador Sea Water with buoyancy forcing in the western subpolar gyre playing a substantial driving role.
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