Tag: Europe

Jaime Palter, University of Rhode Island – The Great Ocean Conveyor and Europe’s Winters

Jun 2, 2016

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Academic Minute

in Climate Science, Oceanography

Could a cooldown be coming to Europe? Jaime Palter, assistant professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, determines whether global warming is slowing the ocean currents that bring heat to the continent. Palter joined the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography in September, 2015. She studies large-scale ocean circulation and its interactions with…