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Natural climate variability and climate change in the North-Atlantic European region; chance for surprise?

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Long-term variability in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Atlantic thermohaline ocean circulation (THC) are both shaping the European climate on time scales of decades and longer. Possible linear and non-linear changes in the characteristics of these natural climate modes due to global warming are an important source of uncertainty in long-term regional projections of future climate changes.

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    Christof Appenzeller

  2. Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Thomas F. Stocker & Andreas Schmittner

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Appenzeller, C., Stocker, T.F. & Schmittner, A. Natural climate variability and climate change in the North-Atlantic European region; chance for surprise?. Integrated Assessment 1, 301–306 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018908027243

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