External links for the North Atlantic Current, or the Gulf Stream

In random order. EuroClim is not responsible for the contents of external webistes. External sites will appear in a separate browser window.

Sensitivity of Arctic Ocean to River Flow (IPCC, TAR)

The Great Ocean Conveyer Belt
Environmental Literacy Council

The Gulf Stream
HYCOM Consortium for Data Assimilative Modelling, on ocean surface currents.

A change in the freshwater balance of the Atlantic Ocean over the past four decades
Extract from Nature, 2003

The Gulf Stream
BBC's website on the history, present and future of the Gulf Stream

The Effect of the Gulf Stream on Northern European Climate
Interactive map.

The Thermohaline Ocean Circulation
A Brief Fact Sheet - by Stefan Rahmstorf

Abrupt Climate Change
The Heat Before the Cold, By Terrence Joyce, Published in The New York Times,
April 18, 2002

North Atlantic circulation and water masses. Thermohaline forcing.
A more detailed lecture on the North Atlantic Current and on ocean currents in general. From the University of California, Sandiego.

The Thermohaline Circulation
Fact sheet

Study Says Saltier Tropical Oceans a Sign of Global Climate Change
December 18, 2003

Gulf Stream unlikely to shut down
CICERONE, 2001 (PDF)