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Beginning in the Caribbean and ending in the northern North Atlantic, the Gulf Stream System is one of the world's most intensely studied current systems. This extensive western boundary current plays an important role in the poleward transfer of heat and salt and serves to warm the European subcontinent.
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oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/gulf-stream.html
oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/atlantic/gulf-stream.html
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The Gulf Stream is also an important component of weather over the oceans. As air comes into contact with this warm-water current, it is heated. Thunderstorms are often seen forming over the Gulf Stream, making it especially important to transatlantic shipping and air travel.
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msx4.pha.jhu.edu/ssip/asat_int/ocean.html
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Interesting. I guess it makes you wonder what else will turn out to be a "myth" that we've been told about the weather and the climates. It seems that every year they are making such progress and have such uptown instruments that ...
http://www.city-data.com/forum/weather/220099-how-impor...
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Ocean currents play an important role in maintaining Earth's temperature, by moving a tremendous mass of warm water from the tropics to the northern Atlantic. The Gulf Stream is one way in which the Earth system attempts to balance out temperature differences between Earth’s coldest and warmest regions.
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edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Project.Site/Pages/trl/inv4-0...
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ScienceDaily (June 7, 2004) — Situated between the continental shelf of the eastern United States and the north wall of the Gulf Stream flowing eastward from Cape Hatteras, the Slope Sea is ... An increased number of Gulf Stream rings may also play an important role in supplying additional nutrients to the surface waters.
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040604032005.htm
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Climate mythology: The Gulf Stream, European climate and Abrupt Change ... New: June 7, 2007 ; Richard Seager's presentation to the New York Academy of Sciences: The Gulf Stream, European Climate and Abrupt Climate Change;
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www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/
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Gulf Stream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gulf Stream , together with its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, exits th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream
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In particular, the NOAA reports on the characteristics of the Gulf Stream that are broadcast four times weekly on VHF radio. Because the Gulf Stream is important to the shipping and fishing industries, it is tracked and measured on a regular basis.
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www.kathleenmix.com/article1.htm
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Sea Surface Temperatures ... Real time buoy data and drifter bottles ... Topex-Poseidon data...
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www.science-house.org/nesdis/gulf/links.html
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