{"648089":{"#nid":"648089","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"North Atlantic currents may not be linked to Meridional Overturning Circulation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new international \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-23350-2\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E has cast doubts on the view that variations in the density of some of the deepest currents of the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean are caused by winter surface conditions and represent changes in the strength of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). The study was co-led by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lozier.eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,\u003C\/a\u003E and\u0026nbsp;Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair in the College of Sciences. Lozier, a physical oceanographer, is president of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.agu.org\u0022\u003EAmerican Geophysical Union\u003C\/a\u003E (AGU.) (The study was also covered on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.subseauk.com\/12697\/latest-research-on-amoc-casts-doubt-on-past-climate-change-interpretations\u0022\u003ESubsea\u0026nbsp;UK\u003C\/a\u003E website and\u0026nbsp;the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gazette.mun.ca\/research\/fundamental-shift\/\u0022\u003EMemorial University Gazette.\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-06-11 17:14:25","changed_gmt":"2021-06-17 19:47:01","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Katherine Roberts","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-north-atlantic-currents-linked-meridional.html","dateline":{"date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-06-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"180514","name":"Susan Lozier"},{"id":"188049","name":"Meridional Overturning Circulation"},{"id":"188050","name":"ocean currents"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}