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Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1081-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1081-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 3
Research article
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20 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2025

Stratification and overturning circulation are intertwined controls on ocean heat uptake efficiency in climate models

Linus Vogt, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, and Casimir de Lavergne

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The ocean buffers human-induced climate change by taking up excess heat from the atmosphere. In this study, we use an ensemble of global climate models to study the physical processes which set the efficiency at which this heat is stored in the ocean. We reconcile previous attempts to explain controls on this efficiency and find that Southern Ocean stratification is a key model property due to its influence on the local overturning circulation and its connection to the subpolar North Atlantic.
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