A box model test of the freshwater forcing hypothesis of abrupt climate change and the physics governing ocean stability

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Jackson, Charles S ^a   Marchal, Olivier ^b   Liu, Yurun ^c   Lu, Shaoping ^c   Thompson, William G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; MASS TRANSFER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78649817001     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001936     Document Type: Article

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