RE# 3 and 4 The Great Salinity Anomaly happened in the late 1960's - 1970's. There have apparently been more since then. Here's some of Google's search results.
http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/~wwwro/paper/EGS03rabe.pdf http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993JGR....9816397H http://www.nap.edu/books/0309054494/html/325.html http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2003GL019334.shtml Notice how they circulate around the Sub Polar Gyre of the North Atlantic. The effects might be cumulative, as the amount of melting increases. As I see it, the problem actually IS the melting going directly into both the Labrador and the Greenland Seas . Here's a model study: Sirpa Häkkinen (1998), "A Simulation of Thermohaline Effects of a Great Salinity Anomaly", J. Climate: Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 1781-1795. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
