Researchers at the University of California, Riverside analyzed 20 years of AMOC observations and used 100 years of temperature and salinity data to reconstruct earlier ocean dynamics.
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- https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/06/20/strange-atlantic-cold-spot-traced-ocean-slowdown (news.ucr.edu)
- https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/atlantic-cold-spot-shows-amoc-has-been-slowing-for-a-century/ (oceanographicmagazine.com)
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