Deep convection does not normally occur in the modern North Pacific Ocean, but that may have changed during the last deglaciation. Sea ice and surface temperature reconstructions show that if so, it was not associated with significant northward heat transport.
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Jaccard, S. Pacific and Atlantic synchronized. Nature Geosci 5, 594–596 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1563
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