Climate and the Gulf Stream

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

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6762, 593-595

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/45107

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