Updating our understanding of climate change in the North Atlantic: The role of global warming and the Gulf Stream

Geography

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-15

  O'Hare, Greg ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF STREAM; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84855728931     PISSN: 00167487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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