Internally generated decadal cold events in the northern North Atlantic and their possible implications for the demise of the Norse settlements in Greenland

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 908-915

  Moreno Chamarro, Eduardo ^a   Zanchettin, Davide ^a   Lohmann, Katja ^a,b   Jungclaus, Johann H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

Author keywords

decadal cold events; internal climate variability; last millennium; Norse settlements; subpolar gyre; subpolar North Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

DECADAL COLD EVENTS; INTERNAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAST MILLENNIUMS; NORSE SETTLEMENTS; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; GYRE; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 84925099450     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062741     Document Type: Article

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