Persistent summer expansion of the Atlantic Warm Pool during glacial abrupt cold events

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 601-605

  Ziegler, Martin ^a   Nürnberg, Dirk ^b   Karas, Cyrus ^b   Tiedemann, Ralf ^c   Lourens, Lucas J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

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

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EID: 65349185496     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo277     Document Type: Article

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