Importance of freshwater injections into the Arctic Ocean in triggering the Younger Dryas cooling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 49, 2012, Pages 19880-19881

  Teller, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DEGLACIATION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLACIATION; GLACIER; LAKE; MELTING POINT; NORTH AMERICA; NOTE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WATER CYCLE; WATER FLOW; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84870603061     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218344109     Document Type: Note

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