Muted change in Atlantic overturning circulation over some glacial-aged Heinrich events

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 144-150

  Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^a   Schmidt, Matthew W ^b   Gene Henry, L ^a,g   Curry, William B ^c   Skinner, Luke C ^d   Mulitza, Stefan ^e   Zhang, Rong ^f   Chang, Ping ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; COOLING; HEAT TRANSFER; HEINRICH EVENT; ICEBERG; LAST GLACIAL; MELTWATER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); STRAITS OF FLORIDA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84893223551     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2045     Document Type: Article

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