Deciphering the role of southern gateways and carbon dioxide on the onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lefebvre, Vincent ^a   Donnadieu, Yannick ^a   Sepulchre, Pierre ^a   Swingedouw, Didier ^a   Zhang, Zhong Shi ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL SHELF; COOLING; EKMAN TRANSPORT; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867497725     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002345     Document Type: Article

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