Atlantic-Pacific seesaw and its role in outgassing CO2 during Heinrich events

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 58-70

  Menviel, L ^a,b   England, M H ^a,b   Meissner, K J ^a,b   Mouchet, A ^c,d   Yu, J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bipolar seesaw; Heinrich events; water masses

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; HEINRICH EVENT; MELTWATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84893178880     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002542     Document Type: Article

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