The great ocean conveyor is drawn

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1. Story
2. Wallace Broecker's article "The Biggest Chill" in Natural History, discussing the Younger Dryas cold reversal, carried a cartoon of the global thermohaline circulation as a single looping belt of warm surface flow and cold deep return. Drawn to explain abrupt climate change to a lay readership, it became the canonical image of the circulation in textbooks and news graphics — and fixed in the public mind a picture of one belt with one engine that the subsequent observational record does not support.
3. Knowledge
4. Thermohaline Circulation
5. Wallace Broecker
6. The great ocean conveyor is drawn
7. Connections
8. Thermohaline Circulation
9. Wallace Broecker
10. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
11. Coastal and Equatorial Upwelling
12. Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)
13. Southern Ocean
14. Argo Profiling Float Array
15. Wallace Broecker
16. The great ocean conveyor is drawn
17. The Argo design array is completed
18. IPCC AR6 assesses AMOC decline as very likely and collapse as unlikely this century
19. Thermohaline Circulation
20. The great ocean conveyor is drawn
21. Evidence
22. The article in which the "great ocean conveyor" diagram of global thermohaline circulation first appeared, drawn as a cartoon for a lay readership in a discussion of the Younger Dryas. Citation details taken from a Journal of Physical Oceanography review of the conveyor concept read via search summary; the original article was not consulted.