North Atlantic control on precipitation pattern in the eastern Mediterranean/Black Sea region during the last glacial

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-384

  Kwiecien, Olga ^a,b   Arz, Helge W ^a   Lamy, Frank ^c   Plessen, Birgit ^a   Bahr, André ^d   Haug, Gerald H ^b,e  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Heinrich events; Mediterranean; Paleoclimate; Precipitation; Terrigenous input

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DEGLACIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT;

ANATOLIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BLACK SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 63549143006     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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