The Younger Dryas Termination and North Atlantic Deep Water Formation: Insights from climate model simulations and Greenland Ice Cores

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-38

  Fawcett, Peter J ^a,d   Ágústsdóttir, Anna Maria ^b   Alley, Richard B ^b   Shuman, Christopher A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODEL; DEEP WATER FORMATION; NADW; PALAEOCLIMATE; YOUNGER DRYAS; YOUNGER DRYAS TERMINATION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 0030986562     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96PA02711     Document Type: Article

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