The Arctic as a trigger for glacial terminations

Climatic Change

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 253-263

  Martinson, Douglas G ^a   Pitman III, Walter C ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; GLACIAL EPISODES; ICE-SHEETS; OCEANIC HEATING;

GLACIERS;

FRESHWATER INPUT; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE COVER; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIATION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; POLAR FRONT; SEA ICE; UPWELLING; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BERING SEA; BERING STRAIT; NORWEGIAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33846568379     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9118-2     Document Type: Article

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