Gulf stream: Charting the chaotic current that warms Norway
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 2 December, 2011
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The North Atlantic Current – popularly known as the Gulf Stream – warms Norway and Northern Europe. But if its waters flowed smoothly north along the Norwegian coastline, the current would deliver far less warmth to Norway. It is the chaos of the seas that warms the country, researchers have discovered....