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Nature 392, 335-337 (26 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32781

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Palaeoclimatology:  Icing the North Atlantic

Richard B. Alley1

The North Atlantic region has experienced large, abrupt climate changes in the past1, and similar changes occur in some models of the future2. But there is disagreement as to whether these changes originate in the North Atlantic itself or are transmitted to the region from elsewhere.

  1. Richard B. Alley is in the Earth System Science Center and the Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 204A Deike Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
    e-mail: Email: ralley@essc.psu.edu