Arctic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum: Atlantic and polar domains of surface water mass distribution and ice cover

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Nørgaard Pedersen, Niels ^a,b   Spielhagen, Robert F ^b   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^c   Grootes, Pieter M ^c   Heinemeier, Jan ^d   Knies, Jochen ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Atlantic water advection; Last Glacial Maximum; Oxygen isotopes; Planktic foraminifers; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

HALOCLINE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SEA ICE; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0142035060     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002PA000781     Document Type: Article

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