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Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-565-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-22-565-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
Research article
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12 Feb 2026
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2026

The Arctic overturning circulation: transformations, pathways and timescales

Jakob Dörr, Carlo Mans, Marius Årthun, Kristofer Döös, Dafydd Gwyn Evans, and Yanchun He

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The Arctic Ocean plays a key role in the global ocean circulation by producing dense waters that feed the lower limb of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). We use a high-resolution ocean simulation to investigate the pathways and mechanisms through which these dense waters are formed in the Arctic. Our results show that surface cooling in the Barents Sea dominates the dense water production, but that internal mixing plays a role at high densities.
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