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Published online 7 February 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020204-8
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Equatorial water belt slackens
30 years of slowing Pacific circulation may have changed climate.
Arecent slowing in the circulation of Pacific Ocean waters could have raised Pacific sea surface temperatures. It may even mean that less carbon has reached the atmosphere from the ocean surface over the past two decades.
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