Twentieth century warming in deep waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence: A unique feature of the last millennium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Thibodeau, Benot ^a   De Vernal, Anne ^a   Hillaire Marcel, Claude ^a   Mucci, Alfonso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN;

20TH CENTURY; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; DEEP WATER; EARTH'S CLIMATE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAWRENCE ESTUARIES; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTH ATLANTIC WATERS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; POSITIVE SHIFT; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNIQUE FEATURES; VARIABLE TEMPERATURE; WATER MASS;

EARTH (PLANET);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77956761850     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044771     Document Type: Article

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