Holocene climate variability of the Norwegian Atlantic Current during high and low solar insolation forcing

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Berner, K S ^a,b   Ko, N ^a,b   Godtliebsen, F ^a,b   Divine, D ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COOLING; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OCEANIC FRONT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WARM WATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN CURRENT; NORWEGIAN SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79958790145     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002002     Document Type: Article

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