Centennial-scale variability of the British Ice Sheet: Implications for climate forcing and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last deglaciation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Knutz, Paul C ^a,b   Zahn, Rainer ^c   Hall, Ian R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEINRICH EVENT; ICE SHEET; LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 34249715916     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001298     Document Type: Article

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