Human-induced changes in the global meridional overturning circulation are emerging from the Southern Ocean

Anthropogenically-induced changes in the global meridional overturning circulation since the 1950s have led the upper overturning cell in the Southern Ocean to expand and strengthen while the lower cell has contracted and weakened, according to diagnostic model simulations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sang-Ki Lee, Rick Lumpkin, Fabian Gomez, Stephen Yeager, Hosmay Lopez, Filippos Takglis, Shenfu Dong, Wilton Aguiar, Dongmin Kim, Molly Baringer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Communications Earth & Environment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00727-3