What if the conveyor were to shut down? Reflections on a possible outcome of the great global experiment

GSA Today

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Broecker, W S ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

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CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

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