Evidence of 550-year and 1000-year cyclicities in North Atlantic circulation patterns during the Holocene

Holocene

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 287-291

  Chapman, Mark R ^a,b   Shackleton, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Holocene; North Atlantic; Palaeoceanography; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLICITY; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034053402     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968300671253196     Document Type: Article

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