GLOBAL CHANGE: A Slowing Cog in the North Atlantic Ocean's Climate Machine

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Science 16 April 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5669, pp. 371 - 372
DOI: 10.1126/science.304.5669.371a

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GLOBAL CHANGE:
A Slowing Cog in the North Atlantic Ocean's Climate Machine

Richard A. Kerr

In a 15 April online report in Science (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1094917), oceanographers report that the giant vortex of an ocean current, or gyre, tucked into the northwestern North Atlantic appears to have slowed, possibly due to global warming.

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RESEARCH ARTICLES Decline of Subpolar North Atlantic Circulation During the 1990s: Sirpa Häkkinen and Peter B. Rhines (23 April 2004)
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LETTERS Future Global Warming Scenarios: Wallace S. Broecker (16 April 2004)
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PERSPECTIVES OCEAN SCIENCE: Global Warming and the Next Ice Age: Andrew J. Weaver and Claude Hillaire-Marcel (16 April 2004)
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