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SUMMARY:Air-Sea fluxes and the Atlantic Overturning Circulation - Jeremy P
 . Grist (National Oceanography Centre\, Southampton)
DTSTART:20131023T100000Z
DTEND:20131023T110000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Dan Jones
DESCRIPTION:The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an i
 mportant mechanism for the transport of heat from the tropics to latitudes
  nearer the British Isles. As a consequence considerable effort has recent
 ly been put into monitoring and understanding its variability. However\, i
 n a 2000 Journal of Climate paper\, Marsh (2000) argued that providing cer
 tain assumptions hold\, it maybe possible for the AMOC to be ‘largely in
 ferred from surface fluxes alone’. This could be achieved by calculating
  a diagnostic called the ‘surface-forced overturning’. We have been ex
 amining the validity of this approach through the analysis of IPCC climate
  models and an eddy-permitting ocean only model. We have also begun to con
 sider how our knowledge of sub-polar North Atlantic air-sea fluxes may pra
 ctically limit such an approach to monitoring the AMOC. 
LOCATION:British Antarctic Survey\, Room 330B
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