For decades, scientists have turned to the Labrador Sea to understand how ocean processes there may be affecting the strength of a massive oceanic conveyor belt known as the Atlantic Meridional ...

Atlantic 'conveyor belt' not slowing, NASA study finds Date: March 29, 2010 Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summary: New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

Limited ocean measurements have shown that “the Atlantic conveyor belt” is far more capricious than models have previously suggested. From 2009 to 2010, the average strength of key ocean ...

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. The exact ...

A vital Atlantic current that includes the Gulf Stream ... travels back south and picks up heat again, restarting the conveyor belt. (The Gulf Stream is part of this belt.) This release of heat ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, a giant ‘conveyor belt’ carries warm waters from the tropics into the North Atlantic, where they cool and sink and then return southwards in the deep ocean. This ...

Antarctica glaciated first and geological data imply that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, the global ocean conveyor belt of heat and nutrients that today helps keep Europe warm ...