Sentences with phrase «atlantic ocean circulation system»

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The simulations suggest that over decades, these warming events dramatically perturb the ocean surface, affecting the flow of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a system of currents that acts like a conveyor belt moving water around the planet.

This would shut down a global ocean circulation system that is driven by dense, salty water falling to the bottom of the north Atlantic and that ultimately produces the Gulf Stream.

The AMOC is part of a global ocean circulation system that carries heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic.

A number of recent studies linking changes in the North Atlantic ocean circulation to sea ice extent led Yeager to think that it would also be possible to make decadal predictions for Arctic winter sea ice cover using the NCAR - based Community Earth System Model...

He concluded that the latter is caused by changes in the North Atlantic ocean circulation, also called the Gulf Stream System.

The North Atlantic is a key spot for the ocean's circulation system, which distributes heat from the equator to the poles.

Recent research at Reading University and elsewhere indicates a slowing of a deep ocean circulation system in the North Atlantic, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation.

The shapes of the shorelines, bottom relief, systems of oceanic currents, tides, atmospheric circulation and a number of other criteria subdivide the World Ocean into the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic Oceans.

She and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts used the NASA GISS ocean model and the MIT General Circulation Model to simulate one of the Atlantic's major current systems that delivers absorbed heat and gases to the depths.

But they say changes to the conveyor - belt - like system — also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc)-- could cool the North Atlantic and north - west Europe and transform some deep - ocean ecosystems.

The Southern Ocean has a vital role in the global ocean circulation system, as it interacts with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ocOcean has a vital role in the global ocean circulation system, as it interacts with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ococean circulation system, as it interacts with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans.