Frontiers | Variability and Feedbacks in the Atlantic Freshwater Budget of CMIP5 Models With Reference to Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Stability
It has been suggested that freshwater transports by the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in the south Atlantic may be a useful metric for determining the stability of the AMOC because it can lead to feedbacks onto North Atlantic salinities and hence deep water formation. In this paper we investigate feedbacks between south Atlantic Freshwater transports, Freshwater content and AMOC strength across different Atlantic latitudes, and at different timescales in centennial runs of 10 CMIP5 climate models, with both northward and southward AMOC freshwater transports in the south At...
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