Global ocean thermohaline conveyor at present and in the late Quaternary

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2817-2820

  Seidov, Dan ^a   Haupt, Bernd J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEYORS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIERS;

GLOBAL OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL OCEAN CONVEYOR; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE QUATERNARY; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; SEMI-LAGRANGIAN; TRAJECTORY TRACING;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

GLOBAL OCEAN THERMOHALINE CONVEYOR; OCEAN CLIMATE DYNAMICS;

OGCM; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 0031277952     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02913     Document Type: Article

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