Mean meridional overturning in the North Atlantic 24-26°N: observations and models. A comment on Wunsch and Heimbach (2006)

Peter M. Saunders; Stuart A. Cunningham; Beverly A. de Cuevas; Andrew C. Coward

doi:10.1175/2008JPO3827.1

Mean meridional overturning in the North Atlantic 24-26°N: observations and models. A comment on Wunsch and Heimbach (2006)

Peter M. Saunders, Stuart A. Cunningham, Beverly A. de Cuevas, Andrew C. Coward

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It is demonstrated that current level models, both with and without assimilation, generate too shallow an overturning in the North Atlantic (just like their predecessors) because they do not reproduce the descent of plumes of cold water from the Greenland and Norwegian Seas. Consequently, the prediction of decadal change from one such model reported by C. Wunsch and P. Heimbach is queried.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2104-2107
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Physical Oceanography
Volume	38
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JPO3827.1
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2008

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