PS001
Atlantic Ocean Connectivity Across Latitudes: Large-Scale Processes, Observations, Modeling, and Impacts
Atlantic Ocean Connectivity Across Latitudes: Large-Scale Processes, Observations, Modeling, and Impacts
Session ID#: 254001
Session Description:
The Atlantic Ocean plays a vital role in the global climate system through large-scale circulation, and the transport of heat and freshwater across latitudes. Key circulation features - such as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, boundary currents, gyres, and interactions between tropical-polar regions - connect high and low latitudes, influencing variability from seasonal to decadal and longer timescales. Understanding these latitudinal linkages is essential for tracking oceanic changes and predicting climate impacts. By integrating diverse approaches and data sources, this session aims to advance understanding of Atlantic-wide circulation, foster collaboration within the AMOC community, and promote a comprehensive view of the role of large-scale Atlantic Ocean processes in a changing climate. We welcome contributions that explore Atlantic connectivity and variability across all timescales - modern observations, paleo reconstructions, modeling and theoretical approaches - including but not limited to:
- Pathways and variability of physical and biogeochemical properties between polar, temperate, and tropical regions from geological timescales to modern times,
- Deep and bottom water masses formation and ventilation
- Physical drivers of large-scale Atlantic variability across all timescales
- Natural and anthropogenic climate forcing
- Sustained observing, best practices and emerging technologies
- Atlantic’s role in modulating ecosystems, influencing regional climate and contributing to sea-level change
Co-Sponsor(s):
- Climate and Ocean Change -
- Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger -
Index Terms:
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4536 Hydrography and tracers [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4553 Overflows [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair: Fernanda DI Alzira Oliveira Matos, Alfred Wegener Institute
Primary Chair: Ivenis Pita, University of Miami, Miami, United States
Co-chairs: Tillys Petit, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany and Tiago Carrilho Bilo, PhD, School of Marine Sciences - The University of Maine, Orono, United States
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