Holocene temperature and salinity variability of the Atlantic Water inflow to the Nordic seas

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1223-1234

  Rasmussen, Tine L ^a   Thomsen, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atlantic surface Water; Holocene; Nordic seas; salinity; temperature

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM CURRENT; COOLING; DISTURBANCE; FORAMINIFERA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENE; INFLOW; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOSALINITY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SURFACE WATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78649398877     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610371996     Document Type: Article

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