{"629683":{"#nid":"629683","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why is an ocean current critical to world weather losing steam? Scientists search the Arctic for answers.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/11\/earth-tipping-point\/\u0022\u003EA new report warns\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is one of nine critical climate systems that greenhouse-gas-fueled warming is actively pushing toward a tipping point....A big limitation in scientists\u0026rsquo; ability to pinpoint precisely what\u0026rsquo;s going on with the AMOC is the lack of long-term observations throughout the current\u0026rsquo;s route....An important new array called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.o-snap.org\/\u0022\u003EOSNAP\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic) began installment in 2014 between the southern tip of Greenland and Scotland near where the current makes its deepest dive and picks up southward speed. But it\u0026rsquo;s too soon to see ongoing trends in the AMOC\u0026rsquo;s strength, says program director \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lozier.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Georgia Tech oceanographer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-12-04 19:12:06","changed_gmt":"2019-12-04 19:12:06","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"college of engineering; Lauren steimle; Meghan Meredith; isye; NSF; NSF grfp; graduate research","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/12\/why-ocean-current-critical-to-world-weather-losing-steam-arctic\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"183217","name":"AMOC OSNAP Susan Lozier oceanography"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}