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A global-scale circulation carries about 10 or 20 million tons per second of relatively warm water northward into the top kilometer of the North Atlantic Ocean. The water cools off, sinks, and returns southward as a relatively dense flow of "North Atlantic Deep Water " (NADW, see Fig. 1)....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barry A. Klinger, Drake Passage
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
NADW
North Atlantic Deep Water
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.597.2791
http://mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/drake.pdf
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Summary:A global-scale circulation carries about 10 or 20 million tons per second of relatively warm water northward into the top kilometer of the North Atlantic Ocean. The water cools off, sinks, and returns southward as a relatively dense flow of "North Atlantic Deep Water " (NADW, see Fig. 1). This NADW "overturning " circulation may have an important influence on the climate of Europe, and has been implicated in abrupt climate changes at the end of the last ice age. latitude de pt h (km

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