When the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the giant ocean conveyor that drags tropical heat northward, weakens, the effects ripple far beyond a chill over the North Atlantic. A new modelling study shows that the slowdown also reshuffles the atmosphere’s aerosols — the tiny particles on which clouds form — and that this reshuffling leaves a measurable fingerprint on clouds and radiation. The finding adds a previously unexplored microphysical pathway to the…
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