Millennial-scale variability in Atlantic water advection to the Nordic Seas derived from Holocene coccolith concentration records

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1276-1287

  Giraudeau, J ^a   Grelaud, M ^b   Solignac, S ^c   Andrews, J T ^d   Moros, M ^e,f   Jansen, E ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; GREENLAND-SCOTLAND RIDGE; IRMINGER CURRENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

MOORING;

ABUNDANCE; ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COCCOLITH; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EPISODIC EVENT; HOLOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SALT; WATER FLOW; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRMINGER CURRENT; NORWEGIAN CURRENT;

EID: 77950692355     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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