Temporal offsets between surface temperature, ice-rafting and bottom flow speed proxies in the glacial (MIS 3) northern North Atlantic

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-53

  Jonkers, Lukas ^a,f   Prins, Maarten A ^b   Moros, Matthias ^c,d   Weltje, Gert Jan ^e   Troelstra, Simon R ^b   Brummer, Geert Jan A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circulation response to freshwater forcing; Heinrich event; Ice rafting event; North Atlantic; Rapid glacial climate change

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION CHANGES; DIRECT COUPLING; FLOW SPEED; FRESHWATER INPUTS; GLACIAL CLIMATE; GRAIN SIZE; HEINRICH EVENTS; ICE RAFTING; ICE-RAFTING EVENTS; MAGNETIC PROXIES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MULTIPLE PROXIES; NEAR SEA SURFACES; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEDIMENT CORE; SUDDEN RELEASE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; WATER COLUMNS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

WATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOW VELOCITY; FORAMINIFERA; FRESHWATER INPUT; GRAIN SIZE; ICE RAFTING; ICEBERG; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MINERALOGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

EID: 84863200085     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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