Southern ocean origin for the resumption of Atlantic thermohaline circulation during deglaciation

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6948, 2003, Pages 532-536

  Knorr, Gregor ^a,b   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEGLACIATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WARMING;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0042154239     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01855     Document Type: Article

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