Changes in the intermediate water mass formation rates in the global ocean for the Last Glacial Maximum, mid-Holocene and pre-industrial climates

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Wainer, I ^a   Goes, M ^b   Murphy, L N ^b,c   Brady, E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; DEEP SEA; DEEP WATER; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HOLOCENE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MODE WATER; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SALINITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84865661865     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002290     Document Type: Article

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