No Certainty That The North Atlantic Current Contributes to Climate Change
The North Atlantic Current (NAC) is a direct continuation of the Gulf Stream and exerts a major influence on our mild European climate. It is often said that the NAC is getting weaker and that temperatures [...] compiled a 21-year continuous time series depicting the strength of the North Atlantic Current where it streams from the West into the East Atlantic. The research results have now been published in the world-renowned [...] we took show that where it flows into the East Atlantic the NAC is just half as strong as the Gulf Stream in the Florida Straits”, explains Dr. Achim Roessler, lead author of the study, “but over a period