Enhanced Arabian Sea intermediate water flow during glacial North Atlantic cold phases

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 220-228

  Jung, Simon J A ^a,b   Kroon, Dick ^a,b   Ganssen, Gerald ^b   Peeters, Frank ^b   Ganeshram, Raja ^a  

^a Grant Institute of Geology   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AAIW; Arabian Sea; asynchronous; bipolar seesaw; intermediate water; millennial scale

Indexed keywords

AAIW; ARABIAN SEA; ASYNCHRONOUS; BIPOLAR SEESAW; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MILLENNIAL-SCALE;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEINRICH EVENT; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER FLOW;

ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 62749186882     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.037     Document Type: Article

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