Surface changes in the eastern Labrador Sea around the onset of the Little Ice Age

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 160-175

  Moffa Sánchez, Paola ^a   Hall, Ian R ^a   Barker, Stephen ^a   Thornalley, David J R ^a,b   Yashayaev, Igor ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

last millennium; Mg Ca; planktonic foraminifera; surface Labrador Sea

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GYRE; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERGLACIAL; IRRADIANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNESIUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEDIMENT CORE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84898798570     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002523     Document Type: Article

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