{"655222":{"#nid":"655222","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Increased storminess may give rise to North Atlantic\u0027s \u0027cold blob\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile climate change is making much of the world warmer, temperatures in a subpolar region of the North Atlantic are getting cooler. A team of researchers \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs00382-021-06003-4\u0022\u003Ereport\u003C\/a\u003E that changes in the wind pattern, among other factors, may be contributing to this \u0026quot;cold blob.\u0026quot; The researchers\u0026#39; findings run counter to some past studies that have suggested that the cold blob is evidence of a slowdown in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation\u0026mdash;or AMOC\u0026mdash;a large system of ocean currents that carry warm water\u0026nbsp;from the tropics northwards into the North Atlantic.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Our work is further demonstration that sea surface temperatures in the subpolar North Atlantic are not easily explained by a single mechanism,\u0026quot; says study co-author\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cos.gatech.edu\/about\/meet-susan-lozier\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, College of Sciences Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair, and a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Instead, we expect both atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, and their interaction, to drive variability in the sea surface temperatures in this climatically important region.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-02-04 17:32:51","changed_gmt":"2022-02-04 17:32:51","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-storminess-north-atlantic-cold-blob.html","dateline":{"date":"2022-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-02-01T00:00:00-05:00","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":"187930","name":"Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation"},{"id":"189898","name":"cold blob"},{"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":""}}}