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Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1177-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1177-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
Research article
 | 
02 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 02 Sep 2021

Regional imprints of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the eddy-rich ocean model VIKING20X

Arne Biastoch, Franziska U. Schwarzkopf, Klaus Getzlaff, Siren Rühs, Torge Martin, Markus Scheinert, Tobias Schulzki, Patricia Handmann, Rebecca Hummels, and Claus W. Böning

Data sets

Supplementary Data to Biastoch et al. (2021): Regional Imprints of Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Eddy-rich Ocean Model VIKING20X Arne Biastoch, Franziska U. Schwarzkopf, Klaus Getzlaff, Siren Rühs, Torge Martin, Markus Scheinert, Tobias Schulzki, Patricia Handmann, Rebecca Hummels, and Claus W. Böning https://data.geomar.de/downloads/20.500.12085/a8f98a1a-473f-11ea-a036-c81f66eb46c3/

NEMO version 3.6 NEMO System Team https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/nemo/svn/NEMO/releases/release-3.6

Model code and software

Runoff remapping for ocean model forcing T. Martin https://doi.org/10.3289/SW_2_2021

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Short summary
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) quantifies the impact of the ocean on climate and climate change. Here we show that a high-resolution ocean model is able to realistically simulate ocean currents. While the mean representation of the AMOC depends on choices made for the model and on the atmospheric forcing, the temporal variability is quite robust. Comparing the ocean model with ocean observations, we able to identify that the AMOC has declined over the past two decades.
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