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1/n Thread: Science Mag has a new study reporting measurements of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC from the #OSNAP project. They find that this circulation happens mostly towards waters east of Greenland rather than the Labrador Sea in the west. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
2/n I do not find that surprising. At least since the early 1990s the Greenland-Norwegian Seas were considered the most important site for Atlantic deep-water formation. Water there reaches the highest density, and flows over the sills near Iceland. (Graph Rahmstorf Nature 99) 
3/n This “overflow” was measured by Bogi Hansen and others and amounted to about 6 Sv, and was also captured well in models (e.g. nature.com/articles/natur…)
