Inception of the Northern European ice sheet due to contrasting ocean and insolation forcing

Quaternary Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-135

  Risebrobakken, Bjørg ^a,b   Dokken, Trond ^a   Otterå, Odd Helge ^a,c   Jansen, Eystein ^a,b   Gao, Yongqi ^a,c   Drange, Helge ^a,c  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

AMOC; Glacial inception; Insolation; Insolation gradient; Nordic Seas; Northern European ice sheets; Paleo reconstruction: OGCM

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; NUCLEATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 33846280523     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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