The role of oceanic forcing in mid-Holocene Northern Hemisphere climatic change

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 200-210

  Kerwin, Michael W ^a   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^a,b   Webb, Robert S ^a,b   DeVernal, Anne ^c   Rind, David H ^d   Healy, Richard J ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032811858     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998PA900011     Document Type: Article

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