Interhemispheric air temperature phase relationships in the nonlinear Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1180-1189

  Vettoretti, Guido ^a   Peltier, W Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

AIR TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLES; MODEL-BASED ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE MODELING; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; ICE CORE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NONLINEARITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RESERVOIR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; THERMOCLINE;

ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84924854579     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062898     Document Type: Article

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