Surface changes in the North Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last millennium

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wanamaker, Alan D ^a,b   Butler, Paul G ^b   Scourse, James D ^b   Heinemeier, Jan ^c   Eiríksson, Jón ^d,e   Knudsen, Karen Luise ^c   Richardson, Christopher A ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; GULF STREAM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEA SURFACE WATERS; WARMING; ARCTIC; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

SEA WATER;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84863326467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1901     Document Type: Article

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