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Surprising New Pathway for North Atlantic Circulation Discovered
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6-5-2009 10:44 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f8c4e813-d380-4051-8002-5dd1edaf306d/4ACD592C-B91C-48D6-B19E-2078BC029824/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162" href="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162" style="font-size: 11px;">www.whoi.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162">much of the southward flow of cold water from the Labrador Sea moves not along the deep western boundary current, but along a previously unknown path in the interior of the North Atlantic.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162">This new path is not constrained by the continental shelf. It’s more diffuse</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162"><DIV> And since this cold southward-flowing water is thought to influence and perhaps moderate human-caused climate change, this finding may impact the work of global warming forecasters.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162">This finding means it is going to be more difficult to measure climate signals in the deep ocean</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162">We thought we could just measure them in the Deep Western Boundary Current, but we really can’t.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.whoi.edu/img/CADD85EE-832E-4C0F-85AE-EF32FDF55D5E" alt="Great Ocean Conveyor Belt" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=57306&ct=162"><P class="caption">In 1987, oceanographer Wallace (Wally) Broecker of Columbia University developed the concept of the Great Ocean Conveyor to describe the large-scale movement of ocean currents and heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere. (Wallace Broecker, Columbia University )</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4ACD592C-B91C-48D6-B19E-2078BC029824/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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