European climate optimum and enhanced Greenland melt during the last interglacial

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 627-630

  Goñi, Maria Fernanda Sánchez ^a   Bakker, Pepijn ^b   Desprat, Stéphanie ^a   Carlson, Anders E ^c   Van Meerbeeck, Cédric J ^b   Peyron, Odile ^d   Naughton, Filipa ^a,e   Fletcher, William J ^a,f   Eynaud, Frédérique ^a   Rossignol, Linda ^a   Renssen, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^e LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CLIMATE EFFECTS; CLIMATE OPTIMA; DEEP CONVECTION; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HEAT TRANSPORT; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LOCAL CLIMATE; MODEL SENSITIVITY; NORDIC SEAS; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

CLIMATE MODELS; EXPERIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; MELTING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERGLACIAL; LATE GLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RUNOFF;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84864311483     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32908.1     Document Type: Article

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