• Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 

      Carracedo, Lidia I.; Mercier, Herlé; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Rosón, G.; Sanders, Richard; Moore, C. Mark; Torres-Valdés, Sinhué; Brown, P.; Lherminier, Pascale; Pérez, F.F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The North Atlantic Basin is a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) due in part to the extensive plankton blooms which form there supported by nutrients supplied by the three-dimensional ocean circulation. Hence, ...
    • Decomposing oceanic temperature and salinity change using ocean carbon change 

      Turner, Charles E.; Brown, Peter J.; Oliver, Kevin I. C.; McDonagh, Elaine Louise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      As the planet warms due to the accumulation of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere, the interaction of surface ocean carbonate chemistry and the radiative forcing of atmospheric CO2 leads to the global ocean sequestering ...
    • How Is the Ocean Anthropogenic Carbon Reservoir Filled? 

      Davila, Xabier; Gebbie, Geoffrey; Brakstad, Ailin; Lauvset, Siv Kari; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Schwinger, Jörg; Olsen, Are (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      About a quarter of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions during the industrial era has been absorbed by the ocean. The rate limiting step for this uptake is the transport of the anthropogenic carbon (Cant) from the ocean ...
    • Mechanisms of Ocean Heat Uptake along and across Isopycnals 

      Clément, Louis; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Gregory, J.M.; Wu, Q.; Marzocchi, A.; Zika, J.D.; Nurser, A.J.G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Warming of the climate system accumulates mostly in the ocean and discrepancies in how this is modeled contribute to uncertainties in predicting sea level rise. In this study, regional temperature changes in an atmosphere–ocean ...
    • Recent Water Mass Changes Reveal Mechanisms of Ocean Warming 

      Zika, Jan D.; Gregory, Jonathan M.; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Marzocchi, Alice; Clément, Louis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Over 90% of the buildup of additional heat in the Earth system over recent decades is contained in the ocean. Since 2006, new observational programs have revealed heterogeneous patterns of ocean heat content change. It is ...
    • Thirty Years of GOSHIP and WOCE Data: Atlantic Overturning of Mass, Heat, and Freshwater Transport 

      Caínzos, V.; Hernández-Guerra, A.; McCarthy, G.D.; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Cubas Armas, Armas; Pérez-Hernández, M.D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a vital role in global climate, redistributing heat, and freshwater. It is predicted to decline due to anthropogenic climate change, with major implications for ...