Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N

By W. Johns, M. Baringer, L. Beal, S. Cunningham, T. Kanzow, H. Bryden, J. Hirschi, Jochem Marotzke, C. Meinen, B. Shaw and 1 more. 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Evaluation of the GECCO2 ocean synthesis: transports of volume, heat and freshwater in the Atlantic (2015, neutral): “For the period April 2004 to October 2007, an estimate of 1.35 PW exists at 26.5◦N from the RAPID array (Johns et al., 2011).”
Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, methodology): “About half of this variability can be directly attributed to Ekman transport changes; the remainder is due to geostrophic circulation changes (quantified by replacing 𝜏x with its mean value in equation (12)) [see Johns et al., 2011] (Figure 8c).”
Past, Present, and Future Changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (2012, background): “Sarojini, B. B., and Coauthors, 2011: High frequency variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.”
Structure and Performance of GFDL's CM4.0 Climate Model (2019, background): “This approach builds on numerous recent studies demonstrating that tropical precipitation, the ITCZ in particular, responds significantly to perturbations in the energy balance outside of the deep tropics (Broccoli et al., 2006; Chiang & Bitz, 2005; Kang et al., 2008).”
CMIP6 Models Predict Significant 21st Century Decline of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (2020, background): “…a key role in the global redistribution of heat, as it accounts for roughly 2/3 of the oceanic northward heat transport at northern midlatitudes (Johns et al., 2011; Trenberth et al., 2019) and is responsible for net equatorward ocean heat transport in the South Atlantic (estimated to be of the…”
The GFDL Global Ocean and Sea Ice Model OM4.0: Model Description and Simulation Features (2019, methodology): “2 PW for the period of 2004–2013) from the RAPID measurements (Johns et al., 2010) and the implied value derived from air‐sea surface heat fluxes using NCEP reanalysis data (Trenberth & Caron, 2001).”
Resolving and Parameterising the Ocean Mesoscale in Earth System Models (2020, background): “This circulation drives a northward heat transport of about 1.2 PW at 26.5° N. Observations from the RAPID-MOCHA array since 2004 [67] show variability on all timescales with interannual variability typically of the order several Sv, with a larger temporary decrease of 4.7 Sv over 2009/2010 [68].”
Evaluation of the CMCC eddy‐permitting global ocean physical reanalysis system (C‐GLORS, 1982–2012) and its assimilation components (2016, methodology): “This is reported in Table 3 in terms of mean MHT at 26◦N and correlation with respect to the RAPID-MOCHAMHT data derived from the RAPID-MOC array (Johns et al., 2011).”
A decadal prediction case study: Late twentieth-century North Atlantic Ocean heat content (2012, background): “A decomposition of CORE-IA mean northward heat transport into gyre and overturning components (see for example Eden and Willebrand 2001; Johns et al. 2011) indicates that, at the southern edge of the box (508N), the gyre component accounts on average for about 83% of the meridional transport of…”
Evaluation of CMIP6 DECK Experiments With CNRM‐CM6‐1 (2019, background): “It peaks at a value of about 0.9 PW, which remains below the observational estimates of RAPID (Johns et al., 2011), Ganachaud and Wunsch (2003), and Trenberth and Caron (2001) but is about 20% larger than the transport simulated by CNRM‐CM5.”