Intermediate water ventilation in the Nordic seas during MIS 2

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1805-1810

  Rørvik, Kari Lise ^a,b   Rasmussen, Tine L ^a   Hald, Morten ^a   Husum, Katrine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Ross Offshore AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Oceanographic changes; MIS 2; Nordic seas; surface water cooling

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERMEDIATE WATERS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORDIC SEAS; SUBSURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

ISOTOPES; SURFACE WATERS;

VENTILATION;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COOLING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFLOW; INTERMEDIATE WATER; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATER; VENTILATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84879070640     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50325     Document Type: Article

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