ApocaDocs: Stratosphere Targets Deep Sea to Shape Climate: North Atlantic 'Achilles Heel' Lets Upper Atmosphere Affect the Abyss

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Posted Mon Sep 24 2012: from University of Utah:


	Stratosphere Targets Deep Sea to Shape Climate: North Atlantic 'Achilles Heel' Lets Upper Atmosphere Affect the Abyss http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1348496809 A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable "Achilles heel" in the North Atlantic and changing mile-deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth's climate. "We found evidence that what happens in the stratosphere matters for the ocean circulation and therefore for climate," says Thomas Reichler, senior author of the study published online Sunday, Sept. 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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'Doc Jim says:

What happens in the stratosphere ... doesn't stay in the stratosphere!