Responses of ocean circulation and carbon cycle to changes in the position of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at Last Glacial Maximum

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 726-739

  Völker, Christoph ^a   Köhler, Peter ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; CO2; glacial interglacial; ice core data; modeling; Southern Hemisphere westerly winds

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA SET; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84890463909     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002556     Document Type: Article

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