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AMOC collapse isn’t just Europe’s problem.
A weaker Atlantic circulation can reduce northward heat transport while raising sea levels along parts of North America’s Atlantic coast. The same ocean system connects very different risks, from European winters to coastal flooding in the United States and Canada.
We will follow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation from Greenland’s sinking water to the RAPID monitoring array, operating since 2004. We also explain why the Gulf Stream and AMOC are connected but different, why climate models disagree, and where NOAA and Fisheries and Oceans Canada provide regional sea-level information.
These are measurements, reconstructions and conditional scenarios, not a forecast of an imminent shutdown.
