Implications for the creation of warm saline deep water: Late Paleocene reconstructions and global climate model simulations

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 270-284

  O'Connell, Suzanne ^a   Chandler, Mark A ^b   Ruedy, Reto ^c  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE VALUES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; DEEP WATER; EARLY EOCENE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; PALEOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING TRENDS; LATE PALEOCENE RECONSTRUCTIONS; WARM SALINE DEEP WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE MODELING; DEEP WATER; EOCENE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL WARMING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCENE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TETHYS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; SALINITY; WARM WATER; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOCENE; PALAEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 0029729687     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0270:IFTCOW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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