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  2. Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main current system in the Atlantic Ocean, [1]: 2238 and is also part of the global thermohaline circulation, which connects the world's oceans with a single "conveyor belt" of continuous water exchange. [29] Normally, relatively warm, less-saline water stays on the ocean's surface ...

  3. What happens if climate change causes the Atlantic Ocean ...

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    A study published Monday concluded that melting ice in Greenland caused by climate change could cause the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to collapse as soon as 2025, ushering ...

  4. Critical Atlantic Ocean current system is showing early signs ...

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    The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (the AMOC) — of which the Gulf Stream is part — works like a giant global conveyor belt, taking warm water from the tropics toward the far North ...

  5. Thermohaline circulation - Wikipedia

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    Thermohaline circulation (THC) is a part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The adjective thermohaline derives from thermo- referring to temperature and -haline referring to salt content, factors which together determine the density of sea water.

  6. Scientists closely watching these 3 disastrous climate change ...

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    The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water from the tropics into the North Atlantic – could collapse by the middle of the ...

  7. North Atlantic Deep Water - Wikipedia

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    The North Atlantic Deep Water is considered to be one of several possible tipping points in the climate system. North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) is a deep water mass formed in the North Atlantic Ocean. Thermohaline circulation (properly described as meridional overturning circulation) of the world's oceans involves the flow of warm surface ...

  8. A system of ocean currents that transports heat northward across the North Atlantic could collapse by mid-century, according to a new study, and scientists have said before that such a collapse ...

  9. Cold blob - Wikipedia

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    The cold blob in the North Atlantic (also called the North Atlantic warming hole[2][3]) describes a cold temperature anomaly of ocean surface waters, affecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) which is part of the thermohaline circulation, possibly related to global warming -induced melting of the Greenland ice sheet.