meridional

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside report that only one mechanism can simultaneously account for observed temperature trends and changing salinity levels: a slowdown in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a system of ocean currents that circulate water in the Atlantic Ocean like a conveyor belt, helping to redistribute heat and regulate global and regional climates.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2024

One of those tipping points relates to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or the AMOC, a giant oceanic ‘conveyor belt’ that redistributes heat around the planet.

From National Geographic • Aug. 10, 2023

Officially known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, the current ferries heat between the equator and the Arctic like a giant liquid conveyor belt.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2022

Ethiopia is departed in two principal parts, and that is the East part and the Meridional part.

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