The role of an Arctic ice shelf in the climate of the MIS 6 glacial maximum (140 ka)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 25-26, 2010, Pages 3590-3597

  Colleoni, F ^a,b   Krinner, G ^a,c   Jakobsson, M ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ICE SHELVES; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC ICE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CANADA BASIN; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC IMPACT; COMBINED EFFECT; CONTINENTAL ICE SHEET; FRAM STRAIT; GLACIAL MAXIMA; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELVES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MODELING RESULTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUCLEAR SUBMARINE; OCEAN HEAT FLUX; PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; ROSS ICE SHELVES; SEDIMENT CORE; SNOW COVERS; SURFACE MASS BALANCE;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIERS; ICEBREAKERS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SNOW;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; ICE BREAKER; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ALASKA; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; ROSS ICE SHELF; UNITED STATES; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 78049416204     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.06.023     Document Type: Article

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