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OUR CHANGING PLANET The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2007 A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and The Subcommittee on Global Change Research A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget

Figure 6.  The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Topographic map of the Nordic Seas and subpolar basins with schematic circulation of surface currents (solid curves) and deep currents (dashed curves) that form a portion of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Colors of curves indicate approximate temperatures. Credit: R. Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (reproduced with permission from Science).

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