Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2022)

Rapid 20th century warming reverses 900-year cooling in the Gulf of Maine

  • Nina M. Whitney,
  • Alan D. Wanamaker,
  • Caroline C. Ummenhofer,
  • Beverly J. Johnson,
  • Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay,
  • Karl J. Kreutz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00504-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Warming in the Gulf of Maine, western North Atlantic, since the late 1800s reversed a 900-year cooling trend, likely as a result of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases, according to ocean temperature and water mass reconstructions from bivalves and climate model simulations.