Cooling of Northwest Atlantic slope waters during the Holocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Sachs, Julian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HEAT CONVECTION;

HOLOCENE; LABRADOR SEA;

CLIMATOLOGY;

COOLING; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 34548047699     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028495     Document Type: Article

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