AMOC Collapse Simulations Reveal What Could Happen to the Ocean's Carbon

AMOC collapse simulations reveal what could happen to the ocean's carbon

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the system of currents responsible for shuttling warm water northward and colder, denser water to the south. This "conveyor belt" process helps redistribute heat, nutrients, and carbon around the planet.

What Could Happen to the Ocean’s Carbon If AMOC Collapses

Source: Global Biogeochemical Cycles The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is the system of currents responsible for shuttling warm water northward and colder, denser water to the south. This “conveyor belt” process helps redistribute heat, nutrients, and carbon around the planet. During the last ice age, occurring from about 120,000 to 11,500 years ago, millennial-scale disruptions to AMOC correlated with shifts in temperature,…