Persistent Nordic deep-water overflow to the glacial North Atlantic

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 515-518

  Crocket, K C ^a   Vance, D ^b   Gutjahr, M ^b   Foster, G L ^b,c   Richards, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATING WATERS; DEEP WATER; HEAT TRANSPORT; HOLOCENES; ISOTOPE RECORD; LAST GLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MODEL RESULTS; ND ISOTOPES; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHYSICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOURCE WATERS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MODELS; NEODYMIUM; SURFACE WATERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DEEP WATER; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OVERTURN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND-SCOTLAND RIDGE; ICELAND; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT; ROCKALL TROUGH;

EID: 79959223209     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31677.1     Document Type: Article

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