Younger Dryas deglaciation of Scotland driven by warming summers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6215-6219

  Bromley, Gordon R M ^a   Putnam, Aaron E ^a,b   Rademaker, Kurt M ^a   Lowell, Thomas V ^c   Schaefer, Joerg M ^b   Hall, Brenda ^a   Winckler, Gisela ^b   Birkel, Sean D ^a   Borns, Harold W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HUMAN; ICE CAP; MACROFOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; UNITED KINGDOM; WARMING; WINTER; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SCOTLAND; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899636080     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321122111     Document Type: Article

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