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**LottiFurmann** · 09-06-2012, 12:09 AM

The change in temperatures may affect this but note that the Arctic passages were already "open": the ice used to cover the surface but water was able to flow beneath.

Won't the extra heating slow the return flow down(?), meaning it won't travel as far before re-mixing(?), resulting in a rapid rise in Arctic water temps(?), rapid ice melt(?), desalination of return waters causing fatal cutoff of return flow(?) no return flow, no warm weather over Europe (?) on-flow results

I was more asking if this is a tipping point dv.

09-06-2012, 12:09 AM	#64
LottiFurmann Join Date Jan 2008 Posts 4,494 Senior Member	The change in temperatures may affect this but note that the Arctic passages were already "open": the ice used to cover the surface but water was able to flow beneath. Won't the extra heating slow the return flow down(?), meaning it won't travel as far before re-mixing(?), resulting in a rapid rise in Arctic water temps(?), rapid ice melt(?), desalination of return waters causing fatal cutoff of return flow(?) no return flow, no warm weather over Europe (?) on-flow results I was more asking if this is a tipping point dv.
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