Atlantic Ocean circulation changes preceded millennial tropical South America rainfall events during the last glacial

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 411-418

  Burckel, Pierre ^a   Waelbroeck, Claire ^a   Gherardi, Jeanne Marie ^a   Pichat, Sylvain ^b   Arz, Helge ^c   Lippold, Joerg ^d   Dokken, Trond ^e   Thil, François ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

AMOC; Dansgaard Oeschger stadials; Heinrich stadials; ITCZ; Pa Th

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; TROPICS;

AMOC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER STADIALS; HEINRICH STADIALS; ITCZ; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEDIMENT CORE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84923611681     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062512     Document Type: Article

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