Paleoceanography of the Atlantic-Mediterranean exchange: Overview and first quantitative assessment of climatic forcing

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Rogerson, M ^a   Rohling, E J ^b   Bigg, G R ^c   Ramirez, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEAT LOSSES; VELOCITY; WATER;

ATLANTIC FRESHENING; ATLANTIC WATER; DENSITY STRUCTURES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EXTERNAL FORCING; FRESH WATER; GIBRALTARS; GULF OF CADIZ; HIGH DENSITY; HOLOCENES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN WATERS; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENTS; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; VELOCITY FIELD; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE FORCING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEAWATER; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GIBRALTAR; GULF OF CADIZ; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84861125681     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RG000376     Document Type: Review

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