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TI Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic
BT 
AF Holliday, N. Penny
   Bersch, Manfred
   Berx, Barbara
   Chafik, Léon
   Cunningham, Stuart
   Florindo-López, Cristian
   Hátún, Hjálmar
   Johns, William
   Josey, Simon A.
   Larsen, Karin Margretha H.
   Mulet, Sandrine
   Oltmanns, Marilena
   Reverdin, Gilles
   Rossby, Tom
   Thierry, Virginie
   Valdimarsson, Hedinn
   Yashayaev, Igor
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;5:5;6:1;7:6;8:7;9:1;10:6;11:8;12:9;13:10;14:11;15:12;16:13;17:14;
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C1 National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
   Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
   Marine Scotland Science, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
   Department of Meteorology and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
   Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Scotland, UK
   Faroe Marine Research Institute, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
   Department of Ocean Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
   CLS, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
   Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
   Sorbonne Université, CNRS/IRD/MNHN (LOCEAN), Paris, France
   Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA
   Ifremer, Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, IUEM, France
   Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland
   Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
C2 NOC, UK
   UNIV HAMBURG, GERMANY
   MARINE SCOTLAND SCI, UK
   UNIV STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
   SAMS SCOTLAND, UK
   FAMRI, FAROE ISLANDS
   UNIV MIAMI, USA
   CLS, FRANCE
   IFM GEOMAR, GERMANY
   UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE
   UNIV RHODE ISL, USA
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   MFRI, ICELAND
   BEDFORD INST OCEANOG, CANADA
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LOPS-OH
UM LOPS
IN WOS Ifremer UMR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 14.919
TC 140
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00606/71816/70319.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00606/71816/70320.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00606/71816/70321.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR GEOVIDE
   OVIDE
BO Pourquoi pas ?
AB The Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation is important to the climate system because it carries heat and carbon northward, and from the surface to the deep ocean. The high salinity of the subpolar North Atlantic is a prerequisite for overturning circulation, and strong freshening could herald a slowdown. We show that the eastern subpolar North Atlantic underwent extreme freshening during 2012 to 2016, with a magnitude never seen before in 120 years of measurements. The cause was unusual winter wind patterns driving major changes in ocean circulation, including slowing of the North Atlantic Current and diversion of Arctic freshwater from the western boundary into the eastern basins. We find that wind-driven routing of Arctic-origin freshwater intimately links conditions on the North West Atlantic shelf and slope region with the eastern subpolar basins. This reveals the importance of atmospheric forcing of intra-basin circulation in determining the salinity of the subpolar North Atlantic. 
PY 2020
PD JAN
SO Nature Communications
SN 2041-1723
PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC
VL 11
IS 1
UT 000563513300001
DI 10.1038/s41467-020-14474-y
ID 71816
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