Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 491-502

  Dokken, Trond M ^a,b   Nisancioglu, Kerim H ^a,b,c   Li, Camille ^b,c   Battisti, David S ^b,d   Kissel, Catherine ^e  

^a Uni Research AS   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

abrupt changes; D O cycles; Greenland ice core; marine sediment core; Nordic seas; sea ice

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INTERSTADIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FENNOSCANDIA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84883671931     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20042     Document Type: Article

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