«Much less is known about the impacts of freshwater influx from the precipitation associated with a hurricane.» (sciencedaily.com)
The area is important to climate modellers trying to predict the effect of freshwater influx from the melting Greenland icecap. (earthtimes.org)
In a paper in Nature this week, scientists present palaeo - oceanographic evidence that deep convection of surface waters in the North Atlantic — the engine that keeps the AMOC in constant motion — began to decline as early as around 1850, probably owing to increased freshwater influx from Arctic ice that had melted at the end of a relatively cold period called the Little Ice Age (D. J. R. Thornalley et al.. (realclimate.org)