A brief history of climate e the northern seas from the last Glacial Maximum to global warming

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 225-246

  Eldevik, Tor ^a   Risebrobakken, Bjørg ^b   Bjune, Anne E ^b   Andersson, Carin ^b   Birks, H John B ^a,d,e   Dokken, Trond M ^b   Drange, Helge ^a   Glessmer, Mirjam S ^a   Li, Camille ^a   Nilsen, Jan Even Ø ^b   Otterå, Odd Helge ^b   Richter, Kristin ^c   Skagseth, Øystein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Climate model; LGM to future; Marine; North atlantic, nordic seas, and arctic; Observations; Reconstruction; Temperature; Terrestrial; Thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE; LGM-TO-FUTURE; MARINE; NORDIC SEAS; OBSERVATIONS; TERRESTRIAL; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84924424232     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.028     Document Type: Article

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