Quantifying the periodicity of Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger events during Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 413-423

  Long, John A ^a   Stoy, Paul C ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous time autoregressive model; Dansgaard Oeschger events; Heinrich events; Lomb Scargle spectral decomposition; Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3; Millennial scale climate variation; Paleoclimatology; Periodicity

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE MODELS; CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER EVENTS; HEINRICH EVENTS; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PERIODICITY; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; GRIP; HEINRICH EVENT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BERMUDA RISE;

EID: 84877146117     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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