Drivers of exceptionally cold North Atlantic Ocean temperatures and their link to the 2015 European heat wave

The North Atlantic and Europe experienced two extreme climate events in 2015: exceptionally cold ocean surface temperatures and a summer heat wave ranked in the top ten over the past 65 years. Here, we show that the cold ocean temperatures were the most extreme in the modern record over much of the...

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Main Authors: Aurélie Duchez, Eleanor Frajka-Williams, Simon A Josey, Dafydd G Evans, Jeremy P Grist, Robert Marsh, Gerard D McCarthy, Bablu Sinha, David I Berry, Joël J-M Hirschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/7/074004