Intermediate and deep water mass distribution in the Pacific during the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from oxygen and carbon stable isotopes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1228-1245

  Herguera, J C ^a   Herbert, T ^b   Kashgarian, M ^c   Charles, C ^d  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATERS; CARBON RICH; CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER MASS; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC; PACIFIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; THERMOHALINE; WIND STRESS CURL;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; VENTILATION; WIND STRESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEEP WATER; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77950593787     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.009     Document Type: Article

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