Recent freshening in the Kara Sea (Siberia) recorded by stable isotopes in Arctic bivalve shells

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Simstich, Johannes ^a,b   Harms, Ingo ^c   Karcher, Michael J ^d,e   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^f   Stanovoy, Vladimir ^g   Kodina, Lyudmila ^h   Bauch, Dorothea ^b   Spielhagen, Robert F ^b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e OASys Ocean Atmosphere Systems GmbH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ Academy of Sciences Humanities and Literature   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; BOTTOM WATER; CARBON ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SALINITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; KARA SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

ASTARTE BOREALIS; BIVALVIA; SERRIPES GROENLANDICUS;

EID: 26444465039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002722     Document Type: Article

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