Southern Ocean sea-ice control of the glacial North Atlantic thermohaline circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Shin, Sang Ik ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^b   Kutzbach, John E ^a   Vavrus, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; ICE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

SEA-ICE CONTROL; ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; CIRCULATION CHANGES; COUPLED MODELING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

WATER WAVES; ICE CONTROL;

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0038265560     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015513     Document Type: Article

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