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Climate and the Gulf Stream

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  • Jean-Claude Duplessy

    (the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Laboratoire mixte CNRS-CEA, Parc du CNRS)

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The Gulf Stream transports heat from low latitudes through the Gulf of Mexico and on to the northern Atlantic Ocean. Work involving oxygen-isotope analysis of foraminifera shows that, at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum around 21,000 years ago, the Gulf Stream's flow was about 35% weaker than it is today. A cold climate, then, seems to have coincided with reduced northerly transfer of heat.

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  • Jean-Claude Duplessy, 1999. "Climate and the Gulf Stream," Nature, Nature, vol. 402(6762), pages 593-595, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:402:y:1999:i:6762:d:10.1038_45107
    DOI: 10.1038/45107
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