COSEE Ocean Systems: News
Ocean conveyor-belt model stirred up
Description: The accepted picture of how a massive oceanic conveyor belt of water turns has been complicated by new research. The results could help to boost the precision of climate-change models. The paper suggests that, in the past 50 years, ocean circulation closer to the Equator has grown weaker, whereas the northern waters have flowed more strongly. [Source: Nature News]
URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100912/full/news.2010.461.html
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Source: Nature News
Publish Date: 9/12/2010
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