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Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-2307-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-2307-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 4
Research article
 | 
30 Jul 2026
Research article |  | 30 Jul 2026

North Atlantic response to a quasi-realistic Greenland meltwater forcing in eddy-rich EC-Earth3P-VHR hosing simulations

Eneko Martin-Martinez, Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Fraser William Goldsworth, Jin-Song von Storch, Cristina Arumi, Daria Kuznetsova, Saskia Loosveldt-Tomas, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, and Pablo Ortega

Data sets

EC-Earth-Consortium EC-Earth3P-VHR model output prepared for CMIP6 HighResMIP control-1950 EC-Earth Consortium (EC-Earth) https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.4549

Water Hosing simulations with the eddy-resolving global configuration of EC-Earth3P P. Ortega et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15499526

Model code and software

Code for North Atlantic response to a quasi- realistic Greenland meltwater forcing in eddy-rich EC-Earth3P-VHR hosing simulations E. Martin-Martinez https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20662548

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Short summary
We investigate the impact of Greenland meltwaters on the ocean circulation and the North Atlantic region. To this end, we impose a quasi-realistic distribution of freshwater fluxes in a global climate model with 8-km horizontal resolution, much finer than the standard 100-km scale. The study reveals that the meltwaters disperse unevenly across the North Atlantic, guided by boundary currents and modulated by gradual changes in the large-scale circulation, which undergoes a progressive weakening.
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