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AMOC

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AMOC (uncountable)

  1. (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[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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