Ocean-atmosphere climate shift during the mid-to-late Holocene transition

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 388, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-26

  Morley, Audrey ^a,c   Rosenthal, Yair ^a   DeMenocal, Peter ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Eastern North Atlantic Central water circulation; Mid Holocene climate optimum; NAO; Ocean atmosphere climate linkages; Orbital insolation; Paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE LINKAGES; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; MID TO LATE HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; WATER CIRCULATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLOCENE; HYPSITHERMAL; IRRADIANCE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

FORAMINIFERA; HYALINEA BALTHICA;

EID: 84890229098     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.039     Document Type: Article

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