Evidence for a warm Last Glacial Maximum in the Nordic seas or an example of shortcomings in U(K)37' and U(K)37 to estimate low sea surface temperature?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 770-776

  Rosell Melé, Antoni ^a,b   Comes, Pau ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

GREENLAND SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0033497061     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900037     Document Type: Article

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