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ArticleGeophysical research letters2022

Freshwater Flux Variability Lengthens the Period of the Low-Frequency AMOC Variability.

Fukai Liu, Jian Lu, Young-Oh Kwon, Claude Frankignoul, Yiyong Luo

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Article in Geophysical research letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Fukai LiuFrontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0687-9568
Jian LuAtmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8245-6930
Young-Oh KwonPhysical Oceanography Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole MA USA.
Claude FrankignoulPhysical Oceanography Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole MA USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-1839
Yiyong LuoFrontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Ocean University of China Qingdao China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9448-9684
Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology · CNCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRPacific Northwest National Laboratory · USWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) exhibits interdecadal to multidecadal variability, yet the role of surface freshwater flux (FWF) variability in this AMOC variability remains unclear. This study isolates the contribution of FWF variability in modulating AMOC through a partially coupled experiment, in which the effect of the interactive FWF is disabled. It is demonstrated that the impact of the coupled FWF variability enhances the persistence of density and deep convection anomalies in the Labrador Sea (LS), thus lengthening the period of the AMOC oscillation on multidecadal timescale and suppressing its ∼30-year periodicity. Further lead-lag regressions illuminate that the more persistent LS density anomalies are maintained by two mechanisms: (a) The local temperature-salinity coupling through the evaporation and (b) a downstream propagation along the East Greenland Current of the extra salinity anomaly due to the sea ice melting changes associated with an atmosphere forcing over the southern Greenland tip.

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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulationfreshwater fluxinternal variabilitysalinitysubpolar North Atlantic

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PMID36582353
PMCPMC9786630
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