The impacts of the atmospheric annular mode on the AMOC and its feedback in an idealized experiment

The impacts of the Indonesian Throughflow on the inter‐basin seesaw mechanism, in idealized experiments

“…The latitudinal termination of each meridional barrier is positioned to be similar to the Earth's configuration, but regarding their position relatively to the surface wind field, to assure that the Ekman transport at each basin entrance is qualitatively consistent with the observations. All experiments start from the final equilibrium of a DDrake experiment, described in Santis et al (2017). The DDrake is an aquaplanet with two meridional barriers from the North Pole until 35 ∘ S, with 90 ∘ zonally apart ( Figure S1, Supporting information).…”

“…All experiments start from the final equilibrium of a DDrake experiment, described in Santis et al (). The DDrake is an aquaplanet with two meridional barriers from the North Pole until 35°S, with 90° zonally apart (Figure S1, Supporting information).…”

“…However, instead using numerical experiments with realistic topographies, an idealized approach is chosen. The investigation of the climate through idealized experiments, used in this study, follows a series of previous studies with idealized topographies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general climate model (MITgcm) (Enderton and Marshall, 2009;Ferreira et al, 2010aFerreira et al, , 2010bMarshall et al, 2007Marshall et al, , 2014Nilsson et al, 2013;Santis et al, 2017). The advantage of this approach is that it allows one to retain specific physical processes of the coupled system, while neglecting unwanted ones.…”