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Thermohaline Circulation

Thermohaline Circulation is the component of the global ocean circulation that consists of large-scale overturning motions driven by spatial gradients in seawater density arising from surface heat and freshwater fluxes that modify temperature and salinity.

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A Pervasive Millennial-Scale Cycle in North Atlantic Holocene and Glacial Climates

Gérard C. Bond, William Showers, Maziet Cheseby et al. · Science · 1997 · 3.4K citations

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Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean

Sydney Levitus · Eos · 1983 · 3.1K citations

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Atlantic Ocean Forcing of North American and European Summer Climate

Rowan Sutton, Dan Hodson · Science · 2005 · 1.4K citations

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Interocean exchange of thermocline water

Arnold L. Gordon · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1986 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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A signature of persistent natural thermohaline circulation cycles in observed climate

Jeff Knight, Robert J. Allan, Chris K. Folland et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2005 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

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  1. AJ
    Andrew J. Weaver

    University of Victoria, Canada

    30 publications · 5.2K citations

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  2. GL
    Gerrit Lohmann

    Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Germany

    29 publications · 2.3K citations

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    Thomas F. Stocker

    University of Bern, Switzerland

    21 publications · 3.4K citations

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    Jochem Marotzke

    Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

    20 publications · 2.2K citations

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  5. RJ
    Ronald J. Stouffer

    NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

    19 publications · 4K citations

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Institutions

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  1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    61 h-index

    178 publications

    21K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    54 h-index

    358 publications

    26.8K citations

  3. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

    Sparkill, United States

    48 h-index

    133 publications

    49.4K citations

  4. Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

    Bremerhaven, Germany

    44 h-index

    143 publications

    11.1K citations

  5. National Oceanography Centre

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    41 h-index

    144 publications

    10.8K citations

  6. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    41 h-index

    106 publications

    12.9K citations

  7. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    39 h-index

    88 publications

    19.8K citations

  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    36 h-index

    81 publications

    18K citations

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  1. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 146 publications · 14.3K citations

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    176 publications · 12.6K citations

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  3. Geophysical Research Letters

    137 publications · 13.7K citations

    65

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  4. Paleoceanography

    87 publications · 9.4K citations

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  5. Journal of Climate

    105 publications · 11.6K citations

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