The role of the thermohaline circulation in abrupt climate change

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• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2002-02-21

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/415863aPMID 11859359
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