Category: Ocean transport
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Spotlight on Ocean Transport
What is Spotlight? ObsSea4Clim Spotlight is a series of infosheets designed to provide a quick overview of scientific themes addressed in the project. Each document breaks down a key science theme – why it matters, the challenges scientists are tackling, and what ObsSea4Clim is doing about it. Alongside the background,…
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Characterizing the Interannual Variability of North Atlantic Subpolar Overturning
A new study supported by OSNAP, ObsSea4Clim and EuroSea has been recently published. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is important for the global climate due to its role in redistributing heat, freshwater, and dissolved gases over broad spatial scales. Through continuous observations, we now have an 8-year (2014–2022) time…
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New study on overflow water transport
A new study supported by OSNAP, ObsSea4Clim and EuroSea has been published in the Journal of Physical Oceanography. A mooring array has been maintained across the west Greenland shelf and slope since 2014 as part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP). Here we use the first…
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New publication exploring the overflow of water through Faroe Bank Channel into AMOC
The overflow of cold and dense water through the depths of the Faroe Bank Channel is the densest contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). A recent study led by ObsSea4Clim researcher Karin Margretha Húsgarð Larsen and published in Geophysical Research Letters, sets out to better understand this overflow…
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