Climate and oceanographic variability in the SW Barents Sea during the Holocene

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 609-621

  Risebrobakken, Bjørg ^a   Moros, Matthias ^a,b   Ivanova, Elena V ^c   Chistyakova, Natalia ^c   Rosenberg, Reinhild ^b  

^a BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Holocene; Multiproxy; Polar front; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOTTOM WATER; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL WATER; CORE ANALYSIS; HIGH PRESSURE; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POLAR FRONT; SEA ICE; STRATIFICATION; WATER COLUMN; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 77953457775     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609356586     Document Type: Article

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