A Climatic Freshening of the Deep Atlantic North of 50°N over the Past 20 Years
- 16 December 1983
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 222 (4629), 1237-1239
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.222.4629.1237
Abstract
Observations made in summer 1981 show a significant and widespread decrease in salinity, averaging 0.02 per mil, in deep waters of the subpolar North Atlantic over the past two decades. This implies a relatively rapid response of deep water formation to climatic perturbation.Keywords
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