Iceberg discharges of the last glacial period driven by oceanic circulation changes

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

Volumn 110, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 16350-16354

  Alvarez Solas, Jorge ^a,b   Robinson, Alexander ^a,b   Montoya, Marisa ^a,b   Ritz, Catherine ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Abrupt changes; Climate modeling; Glacial climate variability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCULATION; GLACIAL PERIOD; HYBRID; ICE AGE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICEBERG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WARMING;

ABRUPT CHANGES; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84885347939     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306622110     Document Type: Article

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