PL24A:
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Modeling and Observations III Posters
PL24A:
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Modeling and Observations III Posters
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Modeling and Observations III Posters
Session ID#: 27800
Session Description:
Through its associated heat, salt, and carbon transports, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) significantly influences the climate of the North Atlantic and surrounding areas and can even impact global climate through interactions with atmosphere on seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Because the memory of the ocean vastly exceeds that of the atmosphere, AMOC is thought to represent the dynamical memory of the climate system, playing a major role in climate variations, hence in climate predictions, on these and even longer, i.e., centennial to millennial, timescales. Support for such a prominent role for AMOC on long time scales comes from coupled general circulation model simulations and proxy records. On shorter, i.e., intra-seasonal to decadal, timescales, measurements of transports, heat content, and other variables throughout the Atlantic Ocean have been instrumental in investigating the spatial structure, mechanisms, and impacts of AMOC variability, showing the importance of processes from the mesoscale to the basin scale. A synergy of knowledge gained from all these efforts will lead to a better understanding of AMOC.
We invite contributions from modeling and observational (both instrumental and proxy) studies, investigating AMOC variability and mechanisms as well as its role in climate predictions on various, e.g., decadal, timescales.
Primary Chair: Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-chairs: Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands, Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Center, Soton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Moderators: Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands, Meric A Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom and Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Rong Zhang, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and Femke de Jong, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Ocean Science Systems, Texel, Netherlands
Index Terms:
4255 Numerical modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
- OM - Ocean Modeling
- PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Circulation in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic Based on Three Years of Mooring Measurements (303230)
Anomalously fresh mixed layers in the Labrador Sea linked to enhanced Greenland surface melt (323937)
Transport and energetic small structure of the Eastern North Atlantic gyre from observations (302439)
See more of: Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger