So the piece about #GulfStream versus #AMOC being related but not same…
(Don't know you IRL, so sorry if this is well known to you already.)
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/92RG02583
Schmitz & McCartney (1993) distilled the state of knowledge to 13 Sv of excess northward cross-equatorial Western Boundary Current transport as the surface component of transport balancing the southward Deep Western Boundary Current (aka AMOC) in the abyss.
Florida Straits GS is 30Sv for context.
Its oversimple
