North Atlantic Current and European environments during the declining stage of the last interglacial

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1009-1012

  Müller, Ulrich C ^a,b   Kukla, George J ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecology; Eemian; Europe; North Atlantic Current

Indexed keywords

SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST); WOODLANDS; CLIMATE; EEMIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL SHIFTS; EUROPE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; FORESTRY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION; ECOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

COOLING; EEMIAN; LAST INTERGLACIAL; OCEANIC CURRENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREELINE; VEGETATION HISTORY; DISPLACEMENT; ECOLOGY; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION;

COOLING; ENVIRONMENTS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD; ARCTIC OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 11144239982     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20901.1     Document Type: Article

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