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SCIENCE
Volume 317, Issue 5840, Pages 938-941Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141293
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- NERC [soc010007, soc010012] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [soc010012, NER/T/S/2002/00481, soc010007] Funding Source: researchfish
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The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC), which provides one-quarter of the global meridional heat transport, is composed of a number of separate flow components. How changes in the strength of each of those components may affect that of the others has been unclear because of a lack of adequate data. We continuously observed the MOC at 26.5 degrees N for 1 year using end-point measurements of density, bottom pressure, and ocean currents; cable measurements across the Straits of Florida; and wind stress. The different transport components largely compensate for each other, thus confirming the validity of our monitoring approach. The MOC varied over the period of observation by +/- 5.7 x 10(6) cubic meters per second, with density-inferred and wind-driven transports contributing equally to it. We find evidence for depth-independent compensation for the wind-driven surface flow.
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