COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Study links swings in North Atlantic oscillation variability to climate warming
Description: Using a 218-year-long temperature record from a Bermuda brain coral, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have created the first marine-based reconstruction showing the long-term behavior of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The NAO is associated with basin-wide changes in the intensity and location of the North Atlantic jet stream. By analyzing the coral, researchers were able to look at changes in the ocean relative to changes on land. [Source: EurekaAlert]
URL: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-01/whoi-sls011309.php
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Source: EurekaAlert
Publish Date: 1/13/2009
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