Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model

Climate of the Past

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 471-480

  Li, Y X ^a   Renssen, H ^b   Wiersma, A P ^c   Tornqvist T E ^a,d  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DRAINAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FRESHWATER; FRESHWATER INPUT; GEOPHYSICS; GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ; HOLOCENE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 77049086337     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-5-471-2009     Document Type: Article

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