Impact of suborbital climate changes in the North Atlantic on ice sheet dynamics at the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hernndez Almeida, I ^a,b   Sierro, F J ^a   Cacho, I ^c   Flores, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLACIOEUSTACY; HYDROGRAPHY; ICE SHEET; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; INSOLATION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUCCESSION; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GARDAR DRIFT;

EID: 84865485156     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002209     Document Type: Article

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