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Ik had wat materiaal van Yale-onderzoekers doorgenomen, leek mij toch allemaal eensluitend te zijn.
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This crucial current "has a mean strength of 19 sverdrups [more than 5 billion gallons per second] but varied substantially over the course of one year showing values between four and 35 [sverdrups]."
That large fluctuation calls into question earlier studies that showed this meridional overturning circulation (MOC) might be slowing based on snapshot current measurements from research vessels.
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"Are you seeing changes in the rate of transfer? Or storage of heat in the Caribbean?" Cunningham asks. "We can't say we have defined the seasonal cycle yet."
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"Do [climate models] have the right sort of nature of the overturning and its variability?" he asks. "There are questions to answer now before you believe their predictions."
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bron: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...c=most_popular
Realclimate: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php...ya-gonna-call/
NewScientist: http://environment.newscientist.com/...s-a-boost.html
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