Investigating the resilience of the AMOC, the system of currents that shapes our planet’s climate
The Atlantic Ocean contains one of the most powerful influences on our planet’s climate, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This system, known as the Atlantic’s “great conveyor belt,” carries warm, salty water from the tropics north into the Arctic, where the water cools, sinks and returns south.
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