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Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales
The Gulf Stream is the upper-ocean limb of a powerful current system known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—the strongest oceanic pacemaker of the Atlantic Ocean and perhaps the entire Earth’s climate. Understanding the long-term variability of the Gulf Stream path is critical for...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31399613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48011-9 |
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author | Seidov, Dan Mishonov, Alexey Reagan, James Parsons, Rost |
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description | The Gulf Stream is the upper-ocean limb of a powerful current system known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—the strongest oceanic pacemaker of the Atlantic Ocean and perhaps the entire Earth’s climate. Understanding the long-term variability of the Gulf Stream path is critical for resolving how the ocean, as a climate driver, works. A captivating facet of the Gulf Stream as a large-scale ocean climate phenomenon is its astounding resilience on timescales of decades and longer. Although the Gulf Stream has been vigorously explored over many decades, its long-term constancy deserves further scrutiny using the increased volume of in situ marine observations. We report a new study where the decadal variability of the Gulf Stream north wall (defined by the 15 °C isotherm at 200 m)—the major marker of the Gulf Stream pathway—is analyzed using in situ observations collected over the last 53 years. |
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spelling | pubmed-66889852019-08-13 Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales Seidov, Dan Mishonov, Alexey Reagan, James Parsons, Rost Sci Rep Article The Gulf Stream is the upper-ocean limb of a powerful current system known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—the strongest oceanic pacemaker of the Atlantic Ocean and perhaps the entire Earth’s climate. Understanding the long-term variability of the Gulf Stream path is critical for resolving how the ocean, as a climate driver, works. A captivating facet of the Gulf Stream as a large-scale ocean climate phenomenon is its astounding resilience on timescales of decades and longer. Although the Gulf Stream has been vigorously explored over many decades, its long-term constancy deserves further scrutiny using the increased volume of in situ marine observations. We report a new study where the decadal variability of the Gulf Stream north wall (defined by the 15 °C isotherm at 200 m)—the major marker of the Gulf Stream pathway—is analyzed using in situ observations collected over the last 53 years. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6688985/ /pubmed/31399613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48011-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Seidov, Dan Mishonov, Alexey Reagan, James Parsons, Rost Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
title | Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
title_full | Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
title_fullStr | Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
title_full_unstemmed | Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
title_short | Resilience of the Gulf Stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
title_sort | resilience of the gulf stream path on decadal and longer timescales |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31399613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48011-9 |
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