Vigorous exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans at the end of the past five glacial periods

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7000, 2004, Pages 661-665

  Peeters, Frank J C ^a,b   Acheson, Ruth ^c   Brummer, Geert Jan A ^b   De Ruijter, Wilhelmus P M ^d   Schneider, Ralph R ^e   Ganssen, Gerald M ^a   Ufkes, Els ^a   Kroon, Dick ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS;

MONSOON SYSTEMS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DEEP WATER FORMATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FORAMINIFER; GLACIER; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; SUMMER; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; WATER FLOW;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

ICE; INORGANIC SALT; SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE; INDIAN OCEAN; PLANKTON; SALTS; SEAWATER; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 3943091919     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02785     Document Type: Article

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