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Enhanced warming of the subtropical mode water in the North Pacific and North Atlantic

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  • Shusaku Sugimoto

    (Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University)

  • Kimio Hanawa

    (Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)

  • Tomowo Watanabe

    (National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency)

  • Toshio Suga

    (Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)

  • Shang-Ping Xie

    (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego)

Abstract

Warming of surface ocean waters is well known, but how the subsurface waters are changing is less clear. This study shows that subtropical mode water in the North Atlantic and North Pacific is warming at twice the rate of the surface waters.

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  • Shusaku Sugimoto & Kimio Hanawa & Tomowo Watanabe & Toshio Suga & Shang-Ping Xie, 2017. "Enhanced warming of the subtropical mode water in the North Pacific and North Atlantic," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 7(9), pages 656-658, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:7:y:2017:i:9:d:10.1038_nclimate3371
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3371
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    1. Yancheng Zhang & Xufeng Zheng & Deming Kong & Hong Yan & Zhonghui Liu, 2021. "Enhanced North Pacific subtropical gyre circulation during the late Holocene," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-10, December.
    2. Sara Berglund & Kristofer Döös & Sjoerd Groeskamp & Trevor J. McDougall, 2022. "The downward spiralling nature of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.

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