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Critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...
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How Ocean Currents Affect The Climate - Described By Climate Scientists

One of the most important functions of the ocean is to move heat around the planet via currents. Think of the ocean as Earth's central heating system, constantly redistributing thermal energy from the ...

Critical Atlantic Ocean currents kept going during last ice age, microfossils suggest

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...
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Deep Ocean Currents Have "Weather" And Seasonal Changes That We're Only Just Learning About

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Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Initiative Marks 10,000 Profiles of the Loop Current

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are transforming our knowledge of the Loop Current, the dominant physical ...
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Ocean currents can generate electricity – and our study shows Africa’s seas have some of the strongest

James H. VanZwieten Jr. receives funding from the US National Science Foundation and US Department of Energy. Gabriel Alsenas receives funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, National Science ...