Reduced North Atlantic central water formation in response to early Holocene ice-sheet melting

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Bamberg, Audrey ^a,b   Rosenthal, Yair ^c   Paul, André ^a   Heslop, David ^a   Mulitza, Stefan ^a   Rühlemann, Carsten ^b   Schulz, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DATA SETS; FRESHWATER FLUXES; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENES; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POSSIBLE FUTURES; SUBPOLAR GYRES; UPPER OCEAN; WATER CONVECTION; WATER FORMATION;

ICE;

EID: 77956716098     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043878     Document Type: Article

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