COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Gulf stream slowdown to spare Europe from worst of climate change
Description: The Thermohaline Circulation operates like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water from the tropics to Europe, where evaporation increases salinity and density so that the water sinks. As the world warms, melting icecaps and increased rainfall are widely predicted to slow this process down by flooding oceans with cold freshwater. However, a new study finds that, rather than cooling Europe, a slowdown of the Thermohaline Circulation would mean the continent still warms, but less quickly than other parts of the world. [Source: University of Sussex]
URL: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressrelease/id/36137
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Source: University of Sussex
Publish Date: 7/12/2016
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