This article provides a brief overview of AMOC science organized collaboratively between the UK RAPID and US AMOC Programs (with partners internationally) during the past 16 years as reflected in the set of synthesis and review articles in the AGU special issue entitled “Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Reviews of Observational and Modeling Advances.” The article highlights the programs' initial motivations and summarizes the successful implementation of the pan‐Atlantic AMOC observing system, efforts to assess the state, variability, and changes in AMOC, advances in understanding AMOC variability mechanisms and predictability, and illumination of AMOC impacts on global and regional climate, sea level, and ecosystems.

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大西洋子午线翻转环流：观测和建模进展的回顾—简介

本文简要概述了英国RAPID和美国AMOC计划（与国际合作伙伴）在过去16年中合作组织的AMOC科学，这在AGU特刊“大西洋经向翻转循环”中的综合和评论文章集中得到了反映。 ：观察性和建模进展的评论。” 本文重点介绍了该计划的最初动机，并总结了成功实施泛大西洋AMOC观测系统，评估AMOC的状态，可变性和变化的努力，对AMOC可变性机制和可预测性的理解的进展以及AMOC对以下方面的影响全球和区域气候，海平面和生态系统。