Conceptual model for millennial climate variability: A possible combined solar-thermohaline circulation origin for the ∼1,500-year cycle

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 32, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 301-311

  Dima, Mihai ^a,b   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Derived climate modes; Fundamental; Millennial variability; Rectification; Solar forcing; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EID: 58149085103     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0471-x     Document Type: Article

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