After an extensive multi-year study, researchers have some surprising insight into the critical role the Atlantic Ocean plays in regulating the Earth’s climate.
Dr. Brad deYoung, professor, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, Faculty of Science, is the only Memorial scientist part of the international study that includes researchers from seven countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, France and China.
Their goal, happily successful, was to measure the deep circulation in the northern part of the Atlantic, from Newfoundland and Labrador to Greenland and from there to Europe.
“The ocean moves around most of the heat on the planet and this circulation is a key component of the global ocean climate transport system,” said Dr. deYoung, also a researcher with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) and principal investigator on an OFI project focused on ocean data and technology and one focused on air-sea gas exchange in the Labrador Sea.
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