Global Warming, Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation, Thermohaline Catastrophe and Their Impact on Climate of the North Atlantic Region

NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security

Volumn 97, Issue , 2011, Pages 125-143

  Polonsky, Alexander ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; Global warming; Thermohaline catastrophe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883131139     PISSN: 18746519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9618-0_15     Document Type: Article

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