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3 unusual facts about Peter Wadhams


Peter Wadhams

He is the president of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans Commission on Sea Ice and Coordinator for the International Programme for Antarctic Buoys.

Shutdown of thermohaline circulation

In May 2005, Peter Wadhams reported in The Times of London about the results of investigations in a submarine under the Arctic ice sheet measuring the giant chimneys of cold dense water, in which the cold dense water normally sinks down to the sea bed and is replaced by warm water, forming one of the engines of the North Atlantic Drift.

Wadhams

Peter Wadhams, professor of Ocean Physics, Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the University of Cambridge



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