An understanding is emerging of the powerful changes that have occurred in convection in the North Atlantic. That understanding provides pointers not only to the regional influence of such changes, but how they may bear on global shifts in climate.
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Dickson, B. From the Labrador Sea to global change. Nature 386, 649–650 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/386649a0
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