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Atlantic overturning in decline?

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Figure 1: Labrador Sea density and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.

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We thank the RAPID science team for making the RAPID-MOCHA observations available (www.rapid.ac.uk/rapidmoc/). The EN3 data set was downloaded from the Met Office (http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/). Thanks also to D. Smith for making the Smith and Murphy analysis available, and L. Shaffrey and the HiGEM project (http://higem.nerc.ac.uk/) for use of the HiGEM data. J.R. was supported by the the BNP-Paribas Foundation through the PRECLIDE project under the CNRS research convention agreement no. 30023488, and through the European Community's 7th Framework Programme through SPECS. D.H., E.H. and R.S. were supported by NERC through the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.

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