Causes of tropical atlantic paleo-salinity variation during periods of reduced AMOC

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Wan, Xiuquan ^a   Chang, Ping ^a   Schmidt, Matthew W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NEW RESULTS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PROXY RECORDS; SALINITY VARIATIONS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SURFACE SALINITIES; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; AMOC; COUPLED MODELING;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOSALINITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; TELECONNECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 77649136058     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL042013     Document Type: Article

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