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Science 16 December 1983:
Vol. 222. no. 4629, pp. 1237 - 1239
DOI: 10.1126/science.222.4629.1237
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A Climatic Freshening of the Deep Atlantic North of 50°N over the Past 20 Years

P. G. BREWER 1, W. S. BROECKER 2, W. J. JENKINS 3, P. B. RHINES 3, C. G. ROOTH 4, J. H. SWIFT 5, T. TAKAHASHI 6, and R. T. WILLIAMS 7

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, New York 10964
3 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
4 Rosenstiel School of Marin and Atmospheric Science, Miami, Florida 33149
5 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093
6 Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
7 Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Observations made in summer 1981 show a significant and widespread decrease in salinity, averaging 0.02 per mil, in deep waters of the subpolar North Atlantic over the past two decades. This implies a relatively rapid response of deep water formation to climatic perturbation.

Submitted on June 16, 1983
Accepted on July 29, 1983


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