Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-589-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-589-2024
Research article
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17 Apr 2024
Research article |  | 17 Apr 2024

Comparing observed and modelled components of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26° N

Harry Bryden, Jordi Beunk, Sybren Drijfhout, Wilco Hazeleger, and Jennifer Mecking

Data sets

Storing and manipulating environmental big data with JASMIN B. N. Lawrence et al. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData.2013.6691556

Model code and software

Comparing observed and modeled decomposition of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26°N J. Beunk https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/41572

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There is widespread interest in whether the Gulf Stream will decline under global warming. We analyse 19 coupled climate model projections of the AMOC over the 21st century. The model consensus is that the AMOC will decline by about 40 % due to reductions in northward Gulf Stream transport and southward deep western boundary current transport. Whilst the wind-driven Gulf Stream decreases by 4 Sv, most of the decrease in the Gulf Stream is due to a reduction of 7 Sv in its thermohaline component.