Can the ongoing Arctic sea
ice decline weaken the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)?
«Arctic Sea -
Ice Decline Weakens the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.»
Arctic sea -
ice decline weakens the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Nature Climate Change)
Not exact matches
The idea is that Arctic sea
ice decline would expose the ocean to anomalous surface heat and freshwater fluxes, resulting in positive buoyancy anomalies that can propagate downstream to the North Atlantic, in due time suppressing deep convection and
weakening the AMOC.
One factor that contributed to this fall's extreme
decline was that the
ice was entering the melt season in an already
weakened state.