Response of the ocean, climate and terrestrial carbon cycle to Holocene freshwater discharge after 8 kyr BP

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Yi ^a   Mysak, Lawrence A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION;

HOLOCENE FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET (LIS); MCGILL PALEOCLIMATE MODEL (MPM); MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION (MOC); NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER (NADW) FORMATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION (THC);

GEOPHYSICS;

CARBON CYCLE; HOLOCENE; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; RIVER DISCHARGE;

EID: 25844501360     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023344     Document Type: Article

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