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Climate Change Impacts Explained in Real Time
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Annalisa Cherchi

Nature Climate Change

Published date September 16, 2019

Connecting AMOC changes

  • States that in recent years, the tropical Indian Ocean has experienced persistent warming larger than any other basin
  • Suggests that this may exert a stabilizing effect on the meridional overturning circulation in the north Atlantic Ocean by attenuating its recent weakening, with implications for climate change worldwide

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