Influence of Bering Strait flow and North Atlantic circulation on glacial sea-level changes

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-121

  Hu, Aixue ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^b   Waelbroeck, Claire ^c   Han, Weiqing ^c   Loutre, Marie France ^d   Lambeck, Kurt ^e   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^f   Rosenbloom, Nan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SOLAR RADIATION; STRAIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 76449095967     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo729     Document Type: Article

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