A minimum thermodynamic model for the bipolar seesaw

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Johnsen, Sigfùs J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

bipolar seesaw; Dansgaard Oeschger events; north south connection; synchronization of Antarctic and Greenland ice cores

Indexed keywords

DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; ICE CORE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCLIMATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 1642274701     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000920     Document Type: Article

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