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Shifting seas in the greenhouse?

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Figure 1: Simplified sketch of currents in the North Atlantic, showing the two main convection sites in the Greenland and Labrador Seas.
Figure 2: Simulated water-volume transport of the Atlantic ‘conveyor belt’ (Atlantic overturning) in a range of global warming scena.

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Rahmstorf, S. Shifting seas in the greenhouse?. Nature 399, 523–524 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21066

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