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OCEAN SCIENCE
Volume 3, Issue 1, Pages 55-57Publisher
COPERNICUS PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.5194/os-3-55-2007
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Recently, hydrographic measurements have been used to argue that the meridional overturning circulation at 25 degrees N has decreased by 30% over the last 50 years. Here we show that the most likely interpretation consistent with this approach (i.e., with the dynamic method together with a level-of-no-motion assumption and Ekman dynamics) is that any decrease in strength of the deep western boundary current must have been compensated, not by a basin-wide increase in upper layer southward flow, but by changes in the nonlinear region immediately outside of the Florida Straits.
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