Sensitivity of the North Atlantic circulation to break-up of the marine sectors of the NW European ice sheets during the last Glacial: A synthesis of modelling and palaeoceanography

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 98-99, Issue , 2012, Pages 153-165

  Bigg, G R ^a   Clark, C D ^a   Greenwood, S L ^b   Haflidason, H ^c   Hughes, A L C ^c   Levine, R C ^a   Nygard A ^c   Sejrup, H P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

European Ice Sheet; Iceberg modelling; Marine ice break up; Modelling and palaeodata synthesis

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATIONS; FRESH WATER; HEINRICH EVENTS; ICE BREAK-UP; ICE DISCHARGES; ICE SHEET; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE SECTOR; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SECTOR COLLAPSE;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; WATER;

GLACIERS;

FRESHWATER; GLOBAL CHANGE; ICE BREAKUP; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; LAST GLACIAL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867008913     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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