Pronounced subsurface cooling of North Atlantic waters off Northwest Africa during Dansgaard-Oeschger interstadials

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 339-340, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-102

  Kim, Jung Hyun ^a   Romero, Oscar E ^b   Lohmann, Gerrit ^c   Donner, Barbara ^d   Laepple, Thomas ^c   Haam, Eddie ^e   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Dansgaard Oeschger events; Ocean relaxation oscillations; TEX 86 H; U 37 K'

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER EVENTS; DATA SETS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; GLACIAL CLIMATE; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERSTADIALS; KEY ELEMENTS; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MIXED LAYER; NORTH ATLANTIC WATERS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBSURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WARMING; TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS; TEX 86 H; UNDERLYING CAUSE; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE; WATER DEPTH;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MOTION ESTIMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; MIXED LAYER; PALEOCLIMATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84863490983     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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