Changes in ITCZ location and cross-equatorial heat transport at the Last Glacial Maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1, and the mid-Holocene

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 390, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-79

  McGee, David ^a   Donohoe, Aaron ^a   Marshall, John ^a   Ferreira, David ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heat transport; Heinrich events; ITCZ; Last Glacial Maximum; Mid Holocene

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSPORT; HEINRICH EVENTS; ITCZ; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MID-HOLOCENE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HADLEY CELL; HEAT TRANSFER; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84892861426     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.043     Document Type: Article

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