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Inferring the zonal distribution of measured changes in the meridional overturning circulation |
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A. M. Boer, H. L. Johnson |
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Englisch
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1812-0784
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Erschienen |
In: Ocean Science ; 3, no. 1 ; Nr. 3, no. 1 (2007-02-06), S.55-57 |
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250000766
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Publikation (Nr.) |
copernicus.org/os-3-55-2007.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
Recently, hydrographic measurements have been used to argue that the
meridional overturning circulation at 25° N has decreased by 30% over
the last 50 years. Here we show that the most likely interpretation
consistent with this approach (i.e., with the dynamic method together with a
level-of-no-motion assumption and Ekman dynamics) is that any decrease in
strength of the deep western boundary current must have been compensated,
not by a basin-wide increase in upper layer southward flow, but by changes
in the nonlinear region immediately outside of the Florida Straits. |
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