Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation NEXT
Advanced understanding, increased predictability and international collaboration
The Project
AMOC-NEXT is a collaborative project that incorporates all relevant Atlantic regional components in order to decipherer how AMOC will evolve in the NEXT future and what its overall impact will be, from regional ecosystems and economies to global climate. The study of key yet little understood regional AMOC components will elucidate the starting and returning Atlantic limbs of the AMOC, which distribute essential climatic properties from both natural and anthropogenic sources.
Consortium
AMOC-NEXT is focused on a better understanding and predictability of the ocean-climate nexus with specific attention to the role of the AMOC and its connections with the polar ocean regions. To achieve these goals, AMOC- NEXT has been designed in seven work packages that define and develop scientific and technical topics that build up into an AMOC Monitoring and Prediction System (AMPS). To carry out this aim, a consortium of high scientific and technical level, global vision and interconnected knowledge through multidisciplinary international profiles has been created. A total of 29 beneficiary partners from 17 different countries, spanning the entire Atlantic Ocean from North to South, and 10 associated partners from 4 countries have joint to constitute the AMOC-NEXT consortium.
Methodology
