A simulation of the Atlantic meridional circulation during Heinrich event 4 using reconstructed sea surface temperatures and salinities

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 716-724

  Paillard, Didier ^a   Cortijo, Elsa ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION MODELING; HEINRICH EVENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033503980     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900045     Document Type: Article

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