Hydrographic changes in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic during the last deglaciation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3336-3345

  Benway, Heather M ^a   McManus, Jerry F ^b   Oppo, Delia W ^a   Cullen, James L ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; DEEP CONVECTION; DEGLACIATIONS; FLOW PATH; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROGRAPHIC CHANGES; ICELANDS; LOW LATITUDES; MELT WATER; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEW HIGH; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC; UPPER OCEAN; YOUNGER DRYAS;

DEBRIS; FEEDBACK; NATURAL CONVECTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; LAST DEGLACIATION; MELTWATER; OCEANIC CURRENT; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPPER OCEAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77957329662     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.013     Document Type: Article

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