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Surface salinity in the Nordic Seas dropped between 1965 and 1995, but the source of fresh water to this region is contentious. Observations and simulations suggest that the low-salinity water was derived from the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Figure 1: North Atlantic circulation.

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  1. G. Reverdin is at Sorbonne Universités (UPMC, Univ Paris 06)-CNRS-IRD-MNHN, LOCEAN Laboratory, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France,

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Reverdin, G. Freshened from the south. Nature Geosci 7, 783–784 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2268

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