Mountain ranges favour vigorous Atlantic meridional overturning
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Mountain ranges favour vigorous Atlantic meridional overturning
[1] We use a global Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Model (OAGCM) to show that the major mountain ranges of the world have a significant role in maintenance of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). A simulation with mountains has a maximum AMOC of 18 Sv (1 Sv = 10 m s ) compared with 0 Sv for a simulation without mountains. Atlantic heat transport at 25°N is 1.1 PW with m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geophysical Research Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1029/2011gl050485