Late-Holocene diatom-inferred reconstruction of temperature variations of the West Greenland Current from Disko Bugt, Central West Greenland

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 659-666

  Krawczyk, Diana ^a   Witkowski, Andrzej ^a   Moros, Matthias ^b,c   Lloyd, Jeremy ^d   Kuijpers, Antoon ^e   Kierzek, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disko Bugt; high resolution diatom record; late Holocene; North Atlantic; West Greenland; West Greenland Current

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DIATOM; HOLOCENE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); DISKO BAY; GREENLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77955566975     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610371993     Document Type: Article

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