Atmospheric or Oceanic Control of the Atlantic–Pacific Asymmetry in Meridional Overturning Circulation?

Johan Nilsson, Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden, David Ferreira, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom, Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Robert Jnglin Wills, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland