Rapid freshening of the deep North Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades

Nature

Volumn 416, Issue 6883, 2002, Pages 832-837

  Dickson, Bob ^a   Yashayaev, Igor ^a   Meincke, Jens ^a   Turrell, Bill ^a   Dye, Stephen ^a   Holfort, Juergen ^a  

^a Ctr Environ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; VENTILATION;

THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

DEEP WATER; GLOBAL OCEAN; OVERTURN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VENTILATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037171772     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/416832a     Document Type: Article

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