Fig. 6: The increase in Agulhas leakage (AL) between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s coincided with an increase in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which propagated from the South into the North Atlantic. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 6: The increase in Agulhas leakage (AL) between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s coincided with an increase in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which propagated from the South into the North Atlantic.

From: Robust estimates for the decadal evolution of Agulhas leakage from the 1960s to the 2010s

Fig. 6: The increase in Agulhas leakage (AL) between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s coincided with an increase in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which propagated from the South into the North Atlantic.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a Annual mean (thin lines) and decadally filtered (thick lines, 21 yr Hamming window) strength of the AMOC in density coordinates (AMOCσ) at 34°S (solid lines) and at 26°N (dashed lines). b Annual rate of change in decadally filtered AMOCσ strength as a function of time and latitude. c Annual rate of change in decadally filtered AL strength, as simulated with SIMJRA. d–f Same as panels a to c but for SIMCORE.

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