Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation changes on orbital to suborbital timescales during the mid-Pleistocene

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Kleiven, H F ^a   Jansen, E ^b,e   Curry, W B ^c   Hodell, D A ^d   Venz, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deep water; Mid Pleistocene; Millennial scale; North Atlantic; ODP; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037488188     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001PA000629     Document Type: Article

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