Extended Data Fig. 3: Anthropogenic aerosol and greenhouse gas driven Southern Ocean MOC changes. | Nature Geoscience

Extended Data Fig. 3: Anthropogenic aerosol and greenhouse gas driven Southern Ocean MOC changes.

From: Ocean heat uptake and interbasin redistribution driven by anthropogenic aerosols and greenhouse gases

Extended Data Fig. 3

Changes (relative to the preindustrial time) in annual mean (a) Eulerian-mean, (c) eddy-induced and (e) residual MOCs (color shading in Sv, 1 Sv = 106 m3/s) in the Southern Ocean during 1861–2005 for the multi-model mean of the HIST-AER simulation with CESM1-CN, GISS-E2-1-G, HadGEM3-GC31-LL and NorESM2-LM, since the variable of eddy-induced MOC is available only in these four models within the 9-model ensemble. (b,d,f) As in (a,c,e) but for the HIST-GHG simulation. Annual mean MOC climatology from preindustrial control run in each ocean basin is shown in each panel (contours in Sv, with a contour interval of 5 Sv, zero contours thickened, solid positive and dashed negative).

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