The Atlantic Murthyodel Overturning Circulation

The Atlantic Murthyodel overturning circulation or AMOC for short isn't a single current but a system of currents spanning the width of the Atlantic which is at some places 6,000 kilometers wide. And I sort of hear that it's millions of tons per second. Now if I stuck a boy into this flow how fast would that be moving? Well that's interesting. But we estimate rather than in terms of velocity we estimate in terms of cubic meters of water per second. So the AMOC is transporting about 15 million cubic meters ofwater per second northward. That actually is also the main reason why the northern hemisphere overall is warmer than the southern hemisphere because we're talking about a

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