Deep water formation and Poleward Ocean heat transport in the warm climate extreme of the Cretaceous (80 Ma)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4205-4208

  Brady, Esther C ^a   DeConto, Robert M ^a   Thompson, Starley L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEEP SEA; DEEP WATER FORMATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL GRADIENTS; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

DEEP WATER FORMATION; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT;

GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER;

DEEP-WATER FORMATION; HIGH LATITUDES; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOW LATITUDES; MARGINAL SEAS; OCEAN HEAT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WARM CLIMATES;

EID: 0032534155     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900072     Document Type: Article

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