LETTERS The Atlantic–Pacific Seesaw

A global, oceanic teleconnection of salinity, meridional overturning circulation (MOC), and climate of the North Atlantic and North Pacific is proposed. Simulations with a global climate model show that an extraction of freshwater from the Pacific results not only in an increase of salinity there, b...

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Main Authors: Oleg A. Saenko, Andreas Schmittner, Andrew J. Weaver
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.8071
http://www.cccma.ec.gc.ca/papers/osaenko/PDF/ap_seesaw_2004.pdf