Minimal change in antarctic circumpolar current flow speed between the last glacial and holocene

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 113-116

  McCave, I N ^a   Crowhurst, S J ^a   Kuhn, G ^b   Hillenbrand, C D ^c   Meredith, M P ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; CURRENT DIRECTION; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WESTERLY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84893213728     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2037     Document Type: Article

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