{"653788":{"#nid":"653788","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Atlantic\u2019s vital currents could collapse. Scientists are racing to understand the dangers.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis story rides along with scientists in the North Atlantic\u0026nbsp;searching for clues about one of the most important forces in the planet\u0026rsquo;s climate system: a network of ocean currents known as the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/weather\/learn-about\/weather\/oceans\/amoc\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(AMOC). Critically, they want to better understand how global warming is changing it, and how much more it could shift in the coming decades\u0026mdash;even whether it could collapse. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lozier-dr-susan\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, Professor, Dean, and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair in the College of Sciences,\u0026nbsp;leads an international effort known as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ukosnap.org\u0022\u003EOSNAP\u003C\/a\u003E, which began in 2014. The hope of the international research effort was to go to the sources of the deep-\u0026shy;water sinking, which is largely responsible for propelling the currents in the Atlantic, to \u0026ldquo;try to get a much better understanding of the mechanisms driving change in the AMOC,\u0026rdquo; Lozier says.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-12-16 21:42:12","changed_gmt":"2021-12-16 21:42:12","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/12\/14\/1041321\/climate-change-ocean-atlantic-circulation\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-12-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"180514","name":"Susan Lozier"},{"id":"189569","name":"AMOC"},{"id":"183089","name":"OSNAP"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"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":""}}}