Role of the Bering Strait on the hysteresis of the ocean conveyor belt circulation and glacial climate stability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6417-6422

  Hu, Aixue ^a   Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Han, Weiqing ^b   Timmermann, Axel ^c   Otto Bliesner, Bette ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^d   Washington, Warren M ^a   Large, William ^a   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^e   Kimoto, Masahide ^e   Lambeck, Kurt ^f   Wu, Bingyi ^g  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate transitions; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL PERIOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; ICE SHEET; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860136105     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116014109     Document Type: Article

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