Sensitivity of Nd isotopic composition in seawater to changes in Nd sources and paleoceanographic implications

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Rempfer, J ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Joos, Fortunat ^a   Dutay, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER MASS; GLOBAL SCALE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODELING APPROACH; ND ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; SEDIMENT CORE; SOURCE FLUX;

ISOTOPES; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEODYMIUM;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLOBAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CORE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

EID: 84871375036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008161     Document Type: Article

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