Towards quantitative sea ice reconstructions in the northern North Atlantic: A combined biomarker and numerical modelling approach

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 137-148

  Müller, Juliane ^a   Wagner, Axel ^a,b   Fahl, Kirsten ^a   Stein, Ruediger ^a   Prange, Matthias ^b,c   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; IP25; Northern north atlantic; Ocean sea ice model; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; GREENLAND; IP25; MARINE SURFACES; MODEL DATA; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OCEAN-SEA ICE; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SEA ICE CONDITIONS; SEA ICE DISTRIBUTION; SEA ICE RECONSTRUCTION; SEA-SURFACE CONDITIONS; SPITSBERGEN; STUDY AREAS;

ALGAE CONTROL; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOMARKERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; REPAIR; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOMARKER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 79956319702     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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