Late-Holocene North Atlantic climate 'seesaws', storminess changes and Greenland ice sheet (GISP2) palaeoclimates

Holocene

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 381-392

  Dawson, Alastair G ^a   Elliott, Lorne ^a   Mayewski, Paul ^b   Lockett, Peter ^a   Noone, Sean ^a   Hickey, Kieran ^c   Holt, Tom ^d   Wadhams, Peter ^e   Foster, Ian ^a  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; 'Mediaeval Warm Period'; GISP2; Greenland ice cores; Late Holocene; North Atlantic Oscillation; North Atlantic seesaw; Sea salt; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; HOLOCENE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SALT; STORM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPE;

EID: 0037405537     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl631rp     Document Type: Conference Paper

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