Intermediate depth warming in the tropical Atlantic related to weakened thermohaline circulation: Combining paleoclimate data and modeling results for the last deglaciation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Rühlemann, Carsten ^a   Mulitza, Stefan ^a   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a   Paul, André ^a   Prange, Matthias ^a   Wefer, Gerold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intermediate depth water; Thermohaline circulation; Tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

HEINRICH EVENT; LAST DEGLACIATION; MODELING; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 18344412216     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000948     Document Type: Article

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