Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7230, 2009, Pages 711-714

  Thornalley, David J R ^a,b   Elderfield, Harry ^a   McCave, I Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

CLIMATE VARIATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FRESHWATER INPUT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GYRE; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLOCENE; INFLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SALINITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; HEAT; HOLOCENE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CLIMATE; FEEDBACK; FRESH WATER; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANKTON; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 59649083472     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07717     Document Type: Article

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