Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Subpolar North Atlantic Diagnosed From a High Resolution Reanalysis Data Set
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Abstract
Abstract Subpolar North Atlantic is a vital region to modulate the variation of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). Recently, trans‐basin mooring arrays were deployed to monitor the meridional volume and heat transport in this region. Motivated by these new observations, this study investigates the structure and variability of MOC using a high resolution data assimilative reanalysis product. Our results indicate that the reanalysis product successfully captures the vertical structure and variability for the basinwide integrated stream function. In accord with observations, the meridional volume transport across the section from Greenland to Scotland (i.e., the East Section) is much stronger than that in the Labrador Sea (i.e., the West Section). While the boundary currents in the Labrador Sea display dramatic seasonal variations, their seasonal cycles are largely compensated, leading to very weak seasonality in the MOC. On the other hand, the MOC across the East section has an apparent seasonal cycle with the density changes in the Irminger Basin playing a dominant role. On the interannual time scale, MOC variations across both the West and East sections have comparable amplitudes. In addition, we further split the MOC fluctuations into components induced by barotropic and baroclinic processes. The decomposed fields point out that the isopycnal layer thickness at the west of Greenland is the primary factor to modulate the MOC interannual variability across the West section. MOC interannual variability across the East section is mostly determined by barotropic velocity changes near the pathway of the North Atlantic Current.
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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