Paleophysical oceanography with an emphasis on transport rates

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-34

  Huybers, Peter ^a   Wunsch, Carl ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Last Glacial Maximum; Ocean circulation; Paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MASS TRANSPORT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; METHODOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA; TIME; WATER FLOW;

CLIMATE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 77955268065     PISSN: 19411405     EISSN: 19410611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-120308-081056     Document Type: Article

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