Distinct roles of the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic in the deglacial atmospheric radiocarbon decline

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 394, Issue , 2014, Pages 198-208

  Hain, Mathis P ^a,c   Sigman, Daniel M ^a   Haug, Gerald H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AMOC; Carbon cycle; Deglaciation; Ice age; Ocean circulation; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; STREAM FLOW;

AMOC; CARBON CYCLES; DEGLACIATIONS; ICE AGE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; RADIOCARBON;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGLACIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84897554551     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.020     Document Type: Article

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