The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters

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2. Seager and colleagues, writing in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, decomposed the surface heat budget of the North Atlantic and concluded that the winter temperature contrast between western Europe and eastern North America does not require a dynamical ocean at all. Southwesterly advection of maritime air into Europe and northwesterly advection of continental air into North America account for most of it, and most of the heat the ocean releases in winter is heat it stored in summer rather than heat a current brought from the south. The paper explicitly traces the older claim to Maury.
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4. Gulf Stream
5. Meridional Ocean Heat Transport
6. Matthew Fontaine Maury
7. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
8. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
9. Connections
10. Meridional Ocean Heat Transport
11. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
12. Gulf Stream
13. Matthew Fontaine Maury
14. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
15. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
16. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
17. Matthew Fontaine Maury
18. Gulf Stream
19. Meridional Ocean Heat Transport
20. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
21. Western Intensification of Wind-Driven Gyres
22. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
23. Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
24. North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
25. RAPID-MOCHA-WBTS Array at 26.5°N
26. The Gulf Stream is charted to explain slow mail
27. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
28. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
29. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
30. The Brussels maritime conference standardises ocean observation
31. Maury issues the Wind and Current Chart of the North Atlantic
32. The Brussels maritime conference standardises ocean observation
33. The Physical Geography of the Sea is published
34. The Gulf Stream is found not to explain Europe's mild winters
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36. The winter temperature contrast between western Europe and eastern North America is principally caused by atmospheric advection and the seasonal release of stored ocean heat, not by heat convergence from the Gulf Stream; the older claim is traced to Maury. Read via search summaries of the paper and of later commentary; not fetched.