1,500-year cycle in the Arctic Oscillation identified in Holocene Arctic sea-ice drift

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 897-900

  Darby, Dennis A ^a   Ortiz, Joseph D ^b   Grosch, Chester E ^a   Lund, Steven P ^c  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HOLOCENE; ICE DRIFT; LATITUDE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OSCILLATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA ICE; TIMESCALE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870399112     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1629     Document Type: Article

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