Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters?¶
Seager. (2002). Is the Gulf Stream responsible for Europe's mild winters?.
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- The load-bearing consequence is a remote one: northwestern Europe — Britain, Ireland, coastal Norway — is markedly milder in winter than eastern North America at the same latitude (compare maritime Norway to similarly-latitude Labrador or Hudson Bay), a contrast of order fifteen to twenty degrees that no local property of those coasts explains
This sourceTakes exactly this contrast as its premise — western Europe roughly 15 to 20 °C warmer in winter than eastern North America at the same latitude — and then argues that its principal cause is advection by the mean winds rather than Gulf Stream heat transport, the ocean's own contribution being worth a few degrees rather than the whole anomaly.
- The load-bearing consequence is a remote one: northwestern Europe — Britain, Ireland, coastal Norway — is markedly milder in winter than eastern North America at the same latitude (compare maritime Norway to similarly-latitude Labrador or Hudson Bay), a contrast of order fifteen to twenty degrees that no local property of those coasts explains
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