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In this work, we evaluate the impact of terminated oceanic heat flux in the North Atlantic and Barents Sea on the Northern Hemisphere climate in January by numerical experiments with a coupled model of atmospheric general circulation and a thermodynamic model of the upper mixed layer of the ocean. We analyze the variations in the atmospheric circulation and near-surface temperature. We found that the termi-nation of the oceanic heat flux leads to a depression in atmospheric centers of action in the Northern Hemi-sphere (by 3–5 hPa) and a significant cooling over the continents with the strongest temperature decrease down to −10°C in northwestern Eurasia.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Zuev, V.A. Semenov, E.A. Shelekhova, S.K. Gulev, P. Koltermann, 2012, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2012, Vol. 445, No. 5, pp. 585–589.
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Zuev, V.V., Semenov, V.A., Shelekhova, E.A. et al. Evaluation of the impact of oceanic heat transport in the North Atlantic and Barents sea on the Northern Hemispheric climate. Dokl. Earth Sc. 445, 1006–1010 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X12080181
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