Global Ocean Meridional Overturning

By R. Lumpkin, Kevin Speer. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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The Dependence of Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning on Wind Stress (2011, background): “Although the circulation is highly idealized, it shares several important features with the real Southern Ocean MOC, as described, for example, by Rintoul et al. (2001), Lumpkin and Speer (2007), Talley (2008), or Marshall and Speer (2011).”
Overturning circulation driven by breaking internal waves in the deep ocean (2013, methodology): “This transport peaks at the 28–28.2 kgm 3 density surfaces, corresponding to the interface between the NADW and AABW masses [Lumpkin and Speer, 2007].”
Dynamically and Kinematically Consistent Global Ocean Circulation and Ice State Estimates (2013, result): “In the intervening years, Lumpkin and Speer (2007) produced a revision of the Ganachaud results using somewhat different assumptions, but with similar results, and a handful of other static global estimates (e.g., Schlitzer, 2007) appeared.”
Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N (2011, methodology): “The most recent estimates from inverse models (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003; Lumpkin and Speer 2007), and averages of hydrographic section estimates along 248–268N (Lavin et al. 1998), are within 0.1 PW of the RAPID–MOCHA estimate but still smaller by 0.06 to 0.09 PW.”
Turning Ocean Mixing Upside Down (2015, positive): “…estimates of the zonally averaged global overturning circulation based on inverse calculations from ocean observations (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2000; Lumpkin and Speer 2007) and numerical models constrained to observations (Wunsch and Heimbach 2009) show that waters sink to the ocean bottom at high…”
Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review (2016, methodology): “, 2003]; another is to use inverse methods [Ganachaud and Wunsch, 2000; Lumpkin and Speer, 2003; McDonagh and King, 2005; Lumpkin and Speer, 2007; McDonagh et al., 2010].”
The GFDL CM3 Coupled Climate Model: Characteristics of the Ocean and Sea Ice Simulations (2011, background): “By comparison, observational studies estimate a zonal average overturning transport of 14–20 Sv for this deep, counterclockwise cell (Orsi et al. 2002; Talley 2003; Lumpkin and Speer 2007).”
The Flexible Global Ocean‐Atmosphere‐Land System Model Grid‐Point Version 3 (FGOALS‐g3): Description and Evaluation (2020, result): “The global and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (GMOC and AMOC) are presented in Figure 4, and the spatial pattern simulations are similar to the referenced observations (Lumpkin & Speer, 2007).”
Evaluation of the GECCO2 ocean synthesis: transports of volume, heat and freshwater in the Atlantic (2015, background): “3 PW (Bryden and Imawaki, 2001; Lumpkin and Speer, 2007), which is consistent with a maximum of 1.”
Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling (2012, background): “2a , and assumptions about the statistics of property distributio”