The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Team is associated
with U.S. CLIVAR. To receive more information on the program, contact Cathy
Stephens in the U.S. CLIVAR Office.
Bryden H.L., Mujahid A., Cunningham S.A.
and Kanzow T.: Adjustment of the basin-scale circulation at
26°N to variations
in Gulf Stream, deep western boundary current and Ekman transports
as observed by the RAPID array, Ocean Science
Discussions, 6, 871-908
Hirschi J.J.-M., Killworth P.D., Blundell J.R., Cromwell
D.: Sea Surface height signals as indicators for oceanic meridional
mass transports, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 39, 581-601, DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3923.1
2008
Kanzow T., H. Johnson, D. Marshall, S.A.
Cunningham, J.J.-M. Hirschi, A. Mujahid, H.L. Bryden, W.E. Johns:
Basin-wide integrated volume transports in an eddy-filled ocean, Journal of
Physical Oceanography
Baehr, J., S. A. Cunningham, H. Haak, P.
Heimbach, T. Kanzow, and J. Marotzke: Observed and simulated
daily variability of the meridional overturning circulation at
26.5°N in the
Atlantic, Journal of Physical Oceanography
Kanzow T., Send U. and McCartney M.S.: On
the variability of the deep meridional transports in the tropical
North Atlantic, Deep Sea Research I
Johns W.E., Beal L.M., Baringer M.O., Molina
J., Cunningham S.A., Kanzow T., Rayner D. : Variability of shallow
and deep western boundary currents off the Bahamas during 2004-2005:
First results from the 26°N RAPID-MOC
array, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 38, 605-623
Kanzow, T., J. J.-M. Hirschi, C. S. Meinen,
D. Rayner, S. A. Cunningham, J. Marotzke, W. E. Johns, H. L.
Bryden, L. M. Beal, and M. O. Baringer, 2008: A prototype system
of observing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- scientific basis, measurement and risk mitigation strategies,
and first results, Journal of Operational Oceanography, 1, 19-28
2007:
Dong, Buwen and Rowan T.
SuttonEnhancement of ENSO Variability by a Weakened Atlantic
Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled GCM, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 19, pp. 4920–493
Dong, Shenfu, Sarah T. Gille, and Janet Sprintall,
2007: An Assessment of the Southern Ocean Mixed Layer Heat Budget,
Journal of Climate, 20, Issue 17, pp. 4425–4442
Drijfhout, S.S., and W. Hazeleger, 2007: Detecting
Atlantic MOC Changes in an Ensemble of Climate Change Simulations, Journal
of Climate, 20, Issue 8, pp. 1571–1582
Fedorov, Alexey, Marcelo Barreiro, Giulio Boccaletti,
Ronald Pacanowski, and S. George Philander, 2007: The Freshening
of Surface Waters in High Latitudes: Effects on the Thermohaline
and Wind-Driven Circulations, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37,
Issue 4, pp. 896–907
Hirabara, Mikitoshi, Hiroshi Ishizaki, and Ichiro
Ishikawa, 2007: Effects of the Westerly Wind Stress over the Southern
Ocean on the Meridional Overturning, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37,
Issue 8, pp. 2114–2132
Hirschi, J. and J. Marotzke, 2007: Reconstructing
the Meridional Overturning Circulation from Boundary Densities
and the Zonal Wind Stress, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37,
Issue 3, pp. 743–763
Keller, Klaus, Curtis Deutsch, Matthew G. Hall,
and David F. Bradford, 2007: Early Detection of Changes in the
North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Implications
for the Design of Ocean Observation Systems, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 2, pp. 145–157
Köhl, A., D. Stammer, and B. Cornuelle, 2007:
Interannual to Decadal Changes in the ECCO Global Synthesis, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 37, Issue 2, pp.
313–337
Krebs, Uta and A. Timmermann, 2007: Tropical Air–Sea
Interactions Accelerate the Recovery of the Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation after a Major Shutdown, Journal of
Climate, 20, Issue 19, pp. 4940–4956
Levermann, A., J. Mignot, S. Nawrath, and S. Rahmstorf,
2007: The Role of Northern Sea Ice Cover for the Weakening of the
Thermohaline Circulation under Global Warming, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 16, pp. 4160–4171
Lohmann, Katja and Mojib Latif, 2007: Influence
of El Niño on the Upper-Ocean Circulation in the Tropical
Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 19, pp. 5012–5018
Mignot, J., A. Ganopolski, and A. Levermann, 2007:
Atlantic Subsurface Temperatures: Response to a Shutdown of the
Overturning Circulation and Consequences for Its Recovery, Journal
of Climate, 20, Issue 19, pp. 4884–4898
Pickart, Robert S. and Michael A. Spall, 2007:
Impact of Labrador Sea Convection on the North Atlantic Meridional
Overturning Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography,37,
Issue 9, pp. 2207–2227
Schneider, Birgit, M. Latif, and Andreas Schmittner,
2007: Evaluation of Different Methods to Assess Model Projections
of the Future Evolution of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 10, pp. 2121–2132
Sutton, Rowan T. and Daniel L. R. Hodson, 2007:
Climate Response to Basin-Scale Warming and Cooling of the North
Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 5, pp. 891–907
Timmermann, A., Y. Okumura, S.-I. An, A. Clement,
B. Dong, E. Guilyardi, A. Hu, J. H. Jungclaus, M. Renold, T. F.
Stocker, R. J. Stouffer, R. Sutton, S.-P. Xie, and J. Yin, 2007:
The Influence of a Weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation on ENSO, Journal of Climate, 20,
Issue 19, pp. 4899–4919
Zhang, R., T.
Delworth, and I. Held, "Can the Atlantic Ocean drive
the observed multidecadal variability in Northern Hemisphere
mean temperature?". Geophys. Res. Letters, 34.
2006
Bryan, Frank O., Gokhan Danabasoglu, Norikazu
Nakashiki, Yoshikatsu Yoshida, Dong-Hoon Kim, Junichi Tsutsui,
and Scott C. Doney, 2006: Response of the North Atlantic Thermohaline
Circulation and Ventilation to Increasing Carbon Dioxide in CCSM3, Journal
of Climate, 19, Issue 11, pp. 2382–2397
Bugnion, Véronique, Chris Hill, and Peter
H. Stone, 2006: An Adjoint Analysis of the Meridional Overturning
Circulation in an Ocean Model, Journal of Climate, 19,
Issue 15, pp. 3732–3750
Collins, M., M. Botzet, A. F. Carril, H. Drange,
A. Jouzeau, M. Latif, S. Masina, O. H. Otteraa, H. Pohlmann, A.
Sorteberg, R. Sutton, and L. Terray, 2006: Interannual to Decadal
Climate Predictability in the North Atlantic: A Multimodel-Ensemble
Study, Journal of Climate, 19, Issue
7, pp. 1195–1203
Latif, M., C. Boning, J. Willebrand, A. Biastoch,
J. Dengg, N. Keenlyside, and U. Schweckendiek, "Is
the Thermohaline Circulation Changing?". Journal of
Climate, 19, 4631-4637.
Mignot, Juliette, Anders Levermann, and Alexa
Griesel, 2006: A Decomposition of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation into Physical Components Using Its Sensitivity to Vertical
Diffusivity, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 36,
Issue 4, pp. 636–650
Saenko, Oleg A., 2006: The Effect of Localized
Mixing on the Ocean Circulation and Time-Dependent Climate Change, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 36, Issue 1, pp.
140–160
Sijp, Willem P. and Matthew H. England, 2006:
Sensitivity of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation and Its Stability
to Basin-Scale Variations in Vertical Mixing, Journal of Climate, 19,
Issue 21, pp. 5467–5478
Sime, Louise C., David P. Stevens, Karen J. Heywood,
and Kevin I. C. Oliver, 2006:
"A Decomposition of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning", Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 36, Issue 12, pp. 2253–2270
Spence, J. Paul and Andrew J. Weaver, 2006: The
Impact of Tropical Atlantic Freshwater Fluxes on the North Atlantic
Meridional Overturning Circulation, Journal of Climate, 19,
Issue 18, pp. 4592–4604
Stouffer, R. J., J. Yin, J. M. Gregory, K. W.
Dixon, M. J. Spelman, W. Hurlin, A. J. Weaver, M. Eby, G. M. Flato,
H. Hasumi, A. Hu, J. H. Jungclaus, I. V. Kamenkovich, A. Levermann,
M. Montoya, S. Murakami, S. Nawrath, A. Oka, W. R. Peltier, D.
Y. Robitaille, A. Sokolov, G. Vettoretti, and S. L. Weber, 2006:
Investigating the Causes of the Response of the Thermohaline Circulation
to Past and Future Climate Changes, Journal of Climate, 19,
Issue 8, pp. 1365–1387
Yin, Jianjun and Ronald J. Stouffer, 2006: Comparison
of the Stability of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation in Two
Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean General Circulation Models, Journal
of Climate, 20, Issue 17, pp. 4293–4315
Dai, Aiguo, A. Hu, G. A. Meehl, W. M. Washington,
and W. G. Strand, 2005: Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation in a
Coupled General Circulation Model: Unforced Variations versus Forced
Changes, Journal of Climate, 18, Issue
16, pp. 3270–3293
Deshayes, Julie and Claude Frankignoul, 2005:
Spectral Characteristics of the Response of the Meridional Overturning
Circulation to Deep-Water Formation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 35,
Issue 10, pp. 1813–1825
Dong, Buwen and Rowan T. Sutton, 2005: Mechanism
of Interdecadal Thermohaline Circulation Variability in a Coupled
Ocean–Atmosphere GCM, Journal of Climate, 18,
Issue 8, pp. 1117–1135
Jungclaus, Johann H., Helmuth Haak, Mojib Latif,
and Uwe Mikolajewicz, 2005: Arctic–North Atlantic Interactions
and Multidecadal Variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation, Journal
of Climate, 18, Issue 19, pp. 4013–4031
Köhl, Armin, 2005: Anomalies of Meridional
Overturning: Mechanisms in the North Atlantic, Journal of Physical
Oceanography, 35, Issue 8, pp. 1455–1472
Mignot, Juliette and Claude Frankignoul, 2005:
The Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation,
the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the El Niño–Southern
Oscillation in the Bergen Climate Model, Journal of Climate, 18,
Issue 13, pp. 2361–2375
Timmermann, A., S.-I. An, U. Krebs, and H. Goosse,
2005: ENSO Suppression due to Weakening of the North Atlantic Thermohaline
Circulation, Journal of Climate, 18, Issue 16, pp. 3122–3139
Wunsch, Carl, 2005: The Total Meridional Heat
Flux and Its Oceanic and Atmospheric Partition, Journal of
Climate, 18, Issue 21, pp. 4374–4380
Zanna, Laure and Eli Tziperman, 2005: Nonnormal
Amplification of the Thermohaline Circulation, Journal of Physical
Oceanography, 35, Issue 9, pp. 1593–1605
Boos, William R., Jeffery R. Scott, and Kerry
A. Emanuel2004: Transient Diapycnal Mixing and the Meridional Overturning
Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 34,
Issue 1, pp. 334–341
Johnson, H. and D. Marshall, 2004: Global Teleconnections
of Meridional Overturning Circulation Anomalies. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 34,
1702–1722
Pasquero, Claudia and Eli Tziperman, 2004: Effects
of a Wind-Driven Gyre on Thermohaline Circulation Variability, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 34, Issue 4, pp.
805–816
Shaffrey, Len and Rowan Sutton, 2004: The Interannual
Variability of Energy Transports within and over the Atlantic Ocean
in a Coupled Climate Model, Journal of Climate, 17,
Issue 7, pp. 1433–1448
Vellingam Michael, and Peili Wu, 2004: Low-Latitude
Freshwater Influence on Centennial Variability of the Atlantic
Thermohaline Circulation, Journal of Climate, 17,
Issue 23, pp. 4498–4511
2003
Gulev, Sergey K., Bernard Barnier, Herve Knochel,
Jean-Marc Molines, and Melanie Cottet, 2003: Water Mass Transformation
in the North Atlantic and Its Impact on the Meridional Circulation:
Insights from an Ocean Model Forced by NCEP–NCAR Reanalysis
Surface Fluxes, Journal of Climate, 16,
Issue 19, pp. 3085–3110
Haine, Thomas W. N., Kelvin J. Richards, and Yanli
Jia, 2003: Chlorofluorocarbon Constraints on North Atlantic Ventilation, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 33, Issue 8, pp.
1798–1814
Lumpkin, Rick and Kevin Speer, 2003: Large-Scale
Vertical and Horizontal Circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 33, Issue 9, pp.
1902–1920
Marshall, John and Timour Radko, 2003: Residual-Mean
Solutions for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Its Associated
Overturning Circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33,
Issue 11, pp. 2341–2354
Saenko, Oleg A., Andrew J. Weaver, and Jonathan
M. Gregory, 2003: On the Link between the Two Modes of the Ocean
Thermohaline Circulation and the Formation of Global-Scale Water
Masses, Journal of Climate, 16, Issue
17, pp. 2797–2801
Zhang, Dongxiao, Michael J. McPhaden, and William
E. Johns, 2003: Observational Evidence for Flow between the Subtropical
and Tropical Atlantic: The Atlantic Subtropical Cells, Journal
of Physical Oceanography, 33, Issue 8, pp.
1783–1797
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