Local and Downstream Relationships Between the Volume of Newly Formed Labrador Sea Water and Overturning Circulation in the North Atlantic

Feili Li1, M Susan Lozier1, Gokhan Danabasoglu2, Naomi P Holliday3, Young-Oh Kwon4, Anastasia Romanou5, Stephen G Yeager6 and Rong Zhang7, (1)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NERC Natural Environment Research Council, Swindon, United Kingdom, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, (6)NCAR, Oceanography, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States