= Meridional heat transport
{title2=$H_T=\int\rho_0c_pvT\,dA$}
The component of <heat transport> crossing a latitude. A poleward transport is northward in the Northern Hemisphere and southward in the Southern Hemisphere. Equal and opposite volume transports can carry net <heat> when the poleward branch is warmer. For <eddies>, the corresponding transport is determined by the correlation of meridional <velocity> and <temperature> anomalies, closely related to <eddy buoyancy flux> in a thermal <Boussinesq approximation>.
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