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"Rodney Blackall" wrote in message
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| Another point worthy of consideration is a bye-product of a POSSIBLE
| shut down or diversion of the North Atlantic gyre which brings the N.
| Atlantic Drift to our shores. Centrifugal and vortical forces cause the
| sea surface to be slightly dish shaped around a cyclonic gyre, dome
| shaped over its counter circulation; stop them and you get changes.
| Whether this is a "good thing" depends on where you are and which gyres |stop/move!
|

Do you mean "North Atlantic Gyre" or "North Atlantic Drift". There is
some talk of a possible shutdown / slowdown of the ocean circulation
which is generated by cold, salty water being left when sea ice forms.
This sinks towards the ocean floor, returning equatorwards at depth and
so drawing more water of tropical origin into the Arctic basin, passing
the UK and Norway along the way.

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Does not matter what you call it, if any eddy subsides or moves away there
will normally be some sort of sea level change.

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Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
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