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Overview

Christopher S. Meinen is affiliated with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialized emphasis on Oceanography. Additional areas of study include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Christopher S. Meinen has contributed to several notable publications. Recent papers include:

  • Observed Ocean Bottom Temperature Variability at Four Sites in the Northwestern Argentine Basin: Evidence of Decadal Deep/Abyssal Warming Amidst Hourly to Interannual Variability During 2009-2019, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Warming Trend in Antarctic Bottom Water in the Vema Channel in the South Atlantic, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Circulation-driven variability of Atlantic anthropogenic carbon transports and uptake, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Highly variable upper and abyssal overturning cells in the South Atlantic, 2020, Science Advances
  • Global Oceans, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Their frequent co-authors include Shenfu Dong, Renellys C. Perez, Edmo Campos, Alberto Piola, and Molly Baringer.

Christopher S. Meinen publishes regularly in several scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Stuart A. Cunningham;Torsten Kanzow;Darren Rayner;Molly O. Baringer

  • Observations of Warm Water Volume Changes in the Equatorial Pacific and Their Relationship to El Niño and La Niña

    Christopher S. Meinen;Michael J. McPhaden

  • Measuring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26°N

    Gerard D. McCarthy;David A. Smeed;William E. Johns;Eleanor Frajka-Williams

  • Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N

    William E. Johns;Molly O. Baringer;Lisa M. Beal;S. A. Cunningham

  • Observed decline of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation 2004–2012

    David A. Smeed;Gerard D. McCarthy;Stuart A. Cunningham;Eleanor Frajka-Williams

  • The North Atlantic Ocean Is in a State of Reduced Overturning

    David A. Smeed;S.A. Josey;Claudie Beaulieu;W.E. Johns

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Seasonal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N

    Torsten Kanzow;Torsten Kanzow;S. A. Cunningham;W. E. Johns;J. J-M. Hirschi

  • Observed interannual variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 26.5 N

    Gerard McCarthy;Eleanor Frajka‐Williams;William E. Johns;Molly O. Baringer

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Observed Transport and Variability

    Eleanor Frajka-Williams;Isabelle J. Ansorge;Johanna Baehr;Harry L. Bryden

  • Observed Flow Compensation Associated with the MOC at 26.5°N in the Atlantic

    Torsten Kanzow;Stuart A. Cunningham;Darren Rayner;Joël J.-M. Hirschi

  • Florida Current transport variability: An analysis of annual and longer-period signals

    Christopher S. Meinen;Molly O. Baringer;Rigoberto F. Garcia

  • Monitoring the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

    Darren Rayner;Joël J.-M. Hirschi;Torsten Kanzow;William E. Johns

  • Vertical structure and transport on a transect across the North Atlantic Current near 42°N: Time series and mean

    Christopher S. Meinen;D. Randolph Watts

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Interannual variations in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and its relationship with the net northward heat transport in the South Atlantic

    Shenfu Dong;Silvia Garzoli;Molly Baringer;Christopher Meinen

  • Interannual Variability in Warm Water Volume Transports in the Equatorial Pacific during 1993–99*

    Christopher S. Meinen;Michael J. McPhaden

  • State of the Climate in 2013

    Jessica Blunden;Derek S. Arndt;Kate M. Willett;A. Johannes Dolman

  • Atlantic meridional overturning circulation observed by the RAPID-MOCHA-WBTS (RAPID-Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heatflux Array-Western Boundary Time Series) array at 26N from 2004 to 2015

    D. Smeed;G. McCarthy;D. Rayner;B.I. Moat

  • Meridional overturning circulation observations in the Subtropical North Atlantic

    O. M. Baringer;T. O. Kanzow;C. S. Meinen;S. A. Cunningham

  • Meridional overturning circulation observations in the North Atlantic Ocean

    M.O. Barringer;D.A. Smeed;J. Willis;M. Lankhorst

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvia L. Garzoli
Silvia L. Garzoli Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
William E. Johns
William E. Johns University of Miami
Molly O. Baringer
Molly O. Baringer Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Stuart A. Cunningham
Stuart A. Cunningham Scottish Association For Marine Science
David A. Smeed
David A. Smeed National Oceanography Centre
Alberto R. Piola
Alberto R. Piola University of Buenos Aires
Edmo J. D. Campos
Edmo J. D. Campos Universidade de São Paulo
Harry L. Bryden
Harry L. Bryden University of Southampton
Torsten Kanzow
Torsten Kanzow Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke Max Planck Society

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