Related Papers
Elipot et.al. (2017): Observed Basin-Scale Response of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to Wind Stress Forcing. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0664.1
Elipot (2013): Coherence of Western Boundary Pressure at the RAPID WAVE Array: Boundary Wave Adjustments or Deep Western Boundary Current Advection?. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-12-067.1
Elipot et.al. (2014): The Observed North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Its Meridional Coherence and Ocean Bottom Pressure. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-13-026.1
Bingham and Hughes (2009): Signature of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in sea level along the east coast of North America. doi:10.1029/2008GL036215
Wilson et.al. (2009): The effect of ocean dynamics and orography on atmospheric storm tracks. doi:10.1175/2009JCLI2651.1
WAVE: Testing the coherence of MOC variabilitity
Principal Investigator: Chris W. Hughes, NOC, Liverpool
While the 26°N array addresses MOC temporal variability, the WAVE array on the western boundary at around 43°N and the joint array with Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution's line W were designed to monitor the Deep Western Boundary Current component of the MOC further north, checking for coherent pressure and density signals.
Highly coherent pressure signals were found, but these re flect large-scale barotropic signals
and are not a measure of MOC fluctuations. Model studies showed that the MOC is not spatially coherent across di erent latitudes, except on multidecadal time-scales.
Western boundary pressure measurements capture almost all the interannual MOC variability. For Phase II the WAVE array was therefore redesigned so as to attempt a western boundary based measure of the MOC at around 43°N, in collaboration with
BIO from 2008 onwards.
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Understanding uncertainty in simulations of THC-related climate change: Model Intercomparison Project
