The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) transports warm, salty tropical water northward, where it cools, becomes denser, sinks, and then travels southward.
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- https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70414 (repository.library.noaa.gov)
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