Arctic Ocean perennial sea ice breakdown during the Early Holocene Insolation Maximum

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 123-132

  Stranne, Christian ^a   Jakobsson, Martin ^b   Björk, Göran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Albedo feedback; Arctic climate; Arctic sea ice; B lling Aller d; Holocene; Milankovitch cycles

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FEEDBACK; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORBITS;

ALBEDO FEEDBACKS; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC SEA ICE; HOLOCENES; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE;

SEA ICE;

ALBEDO; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERE-ICE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIATION; GRIP; HOLOCENE; ICE BREAKUP; ICE CORE; ICE COVER; INSOLATION; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84900450153     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.022     Document Type: Article

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