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Rixen et al. 2005

Rixen, M., Beckers, J.-M., Levitus, S., Antonov, J., Boyer, T., Maillard, C., Fichaut, M., Balopoulos, E., Iona, S., Dooley, H., Garcia, M.-J., Manca, B., Giorgetti, A., Manzella, G., Mikhailov, N., Pinardi, N. and Zavatarelli, M. (2005). The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change. Geophysical Research Letters 32: doi: 10.1029/2005GL022702. issn: 0094-8276.

Reconstructions of Mediterranean ocean temperature fields back to 1950 show a proxy relationship between heat content changes in the North Atlantic and the Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW) formed in the Gulf of Lions in winter, because of consistent air-sea heat fluxes over these areas, strongly correlated to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

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Keywords
Global Change, Climate variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Oceanography, General, Climate and interannual variability (1616, 1635, 3305, 3309, 4513), Global Change, Regional climate change

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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Publisher
American Geophysical Union
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