The cooling would be down to cyclical changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

冷却将降至洋流和北大西洋温度的周期性波动，这是被称为北大西洋涛动现象（NAO）的特征。

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Photo Gallery: Plate Tectonics an eelpout fish swims near tube worms at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.

板块构造图片美术馆。一条粘鱼类游近管蠕虫在中大西洋山脊在大西洋。

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Iceland is a European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

冰岛是北大西洋上的大西洋中脊一个欧洲岛国。

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The Great Lakes are part of a waterway that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the center of North America.

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President Wilson soon learned that opposition to the League of Nations existed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.

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The giant rocket engines that propelled mankind to the moon have been retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

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"The UK outside the EU would be an island somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean between the US and Europe, " he said.

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That wee dot way above the equator in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean just down a bit from where the Polar bears live is us.

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