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THE dominant large scale phenomena determining the climate of the North Atlantic Ocean are the current systems of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift as well as the pattern of atmospheric circulation associated with the semi-permanent centres, the Iceland low and the Azores high. Recently, three long time series of data have become available which throw some light on the interactions between these ocean–atmosphere systems and which appear to indicate the importance of advective processes, as opposed to upwelling, in determining long term variations in the surface temperature of the ocean.
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COLEBROOK, J. Trends in the climate of the North Atlantic Ocean over the past century. Nature 263, 576–577 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263576a0
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