AMOC
See also: amoc
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.mɑk/
Noun
AMOC (uncountable)
- (oceanography) Initialism of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
- 2021 March 2, Moises Velasquez-Manoff; Jeremy White, “In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- The AMOC is thus a poster child for the idea of climatic “tipping points”—of hard-to-predict thresholds in Earth’s climate system that, once crossed, have rapid, cascading effects far beyond the corner of the globe where they occur.