The Labrador Sea as a conduit for AMOC lower-limb transport anomalies on multiple timescales
Jia-Jia Chen, M. Susan Lozier · 2026
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The Atlantic's great overturning flow wobbles in its deep southward limb, and where that wobble starts matters. Jia-Jia Chen and Susan Lozier trace it through the Labrador Sea in a 2026 study. Models join data from a subpolar observing program.
The strongest wobbles sit on dense layers below the overturning peak. They reflect flow shuffled within the limb, not new forcing. Dense water leaving the sea mirrors what entered it closely. Inflow and outflow swings largely cancel in basin totals. Reading single moorings as climate signals can mislead. Density-wise bookkeeping, they argue, is the safer lens.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jia-Jia Chen, M. Susan Lozier |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 86 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |