Evaluation of the sea ice proxy IP25 against observational and diatom proxy data in the SW Labrador Sea

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-62

  Weckström, Kaarina ^a   Massé, Guillaume ^b,c   Collins, Lewis G ^b   Hanhijärvi, Sami ^d   Bouloubassi, Ioanna ^b   Sicre, Marie Alexandrine ^e   Seidenkrantz, Marit Solveig ^f   Schmidt, Sabine ^g   Andersen, Thorbjørn J ^h   Andersen, Morten L ^a   Hill, Brian ⁱ   Kuijpers, Antoon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diatoms; IP25; Labrador Sea; NAO; PIP25; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

DIATOMS; IP25; LABRADOR SEA; NAO; PIP25;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

SEA ICE;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ICE COVER; ICE DRIFT; ISOPRENOID; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SEA ICE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; LABRADOR SEA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84885961108     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.012     Document Type: Article

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