Contribution of enhanced Antarctic Bottom Water formation to Antarctic warm events and millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 increase

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 413, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-50

  Menviel, L ^a,b   Spence, P ^a,b   England, M H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic bottom water; Antarctic isotope maximum; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Atmospheric CO2; Bipolar seesaw

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ANTARCTIC ISOTOPE MAXIMUM; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BIPOLAR SEESAW;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM WATER; CARBON DIOXIDE; EDDY; HEAT TRANSFER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEA ICE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WARM WATER;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84921059138     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.050     Document Type: Article

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