On the abyssal circulation in the glacial Atlantic

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2014-2037

  Marchal, Olivier ^a   Curry, William B ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATOLOGY; DISSOLUTION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATIONS; ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC BASINS; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBONS; GEOSTROPHIC MODELS; INVERSE METHODS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUMS; REPRESENTATIVITY; SEDIMENT CORES; SPECIFIC LOCATIONS; TIME INTERVALS; VOLUME TRANSPORTS; WATER PROPERTIES; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; ADVECTION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEAN BASIN; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; REMINERALIZATION; SALINITY; SEDIMENT CORE; SHELL; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 58049083832     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3895.1     Document Type: Article

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