Isabela Le Bras

TL;DR: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is one of the major sources of energy and carbon flux in the North Atlantic Ocean as mentioned in this paper, and it has been extensively studied in the literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, a moored array spanning the continental slope southeast of Cape Cod sampled the equatorward-flowing Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC) for a 10-year period: May 2004 - May 2014.

TL;DR: The first year-round measurements of the complex current system on the continental shelf and slope southeast of Greenland were presented in this paper, showing that the two currents (one on the shelf and one over the slope) have a maximum in freshwater transport in late fall and winter, respectively, suggesting that summer surveys have been underestimating the amount of freshwater these currents carry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate that a surface freshwater input of 0.36 ± 0.05 Sv over the broad subpolar-Arctic region is needed to balance the ocean salinity change created by the OSNAP transports.

TL;DR: In this article, a steady-state volume, salt, and heat budgets for the Atlantic overturning circulation were built using observations and closed using inverse methods, and it was found that 65 mSv (1 Sv ≡ 106 m3 s−1) of the total surface freshwater fluxes that enter our domain participate in the overturning cycle, as do 0.6 Sv of total 1.2 Sv of Polar Waters that flow through Fram Strait.