Atlantic overturning responses to Late Pleistocene climate forcings

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7218, 2008, Pages 85-88

  Lisiecki, Lorraine E ^a,c   Raymo, Maureen E ^a   Curry, William B ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE FORCING; ECCENTRICITY; GLACIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIER; LATITUDE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 55549123201     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07425     Document Type: Article

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