Variability of the North Atlantic Current during the last 2000 years based on shelf bottom water and sea surface temperatures along an open ocean/shallow marine transect in western Europe

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1017-1029

  Eiríksson, Jón ^a   Bartels Jónsdóttir, Helga Bára ^b   Cage, Alix G ^c   Gudmundsdóttir, Esther Ruth ^a   Klitgaard Kristensen, Dorthe ^d   Marret, Fabienne ^e   Rodrigues, Teresa ^f   Abrantes, Fatima ^f   Austin, William E N ^c   Jiang, Hui ^g   Knudsen, Karen Luise ^b   Sejrup, Hans Petter ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f INETI   (Portugal)

^g EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Holocene; HOLSMEER project; North Atlantic Current; North Atlantic Ocean; Palaeoceanography; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OPEN OCEAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELF SEA; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 33947213251     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683606hl991rp     Document Type: Review

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