Spatial fingerprint and magnitude of changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during marine isotope stage 3

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1903-1911

  Zhang, Xiao ^a   Prange, Matthias ^a   Merkel, Ute ^a   Schulz, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Dansgaard Oeschger events; global climate modeling

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CHARACTERISTIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COMMUNITY CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER EVENTS; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84927750098     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL063003     Document Type: Article

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