Evolving southwest African response to abrupt deglacial North Atlantic climate change events

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 132-136

  Chase, Brian M ^a   Boom, Arnoud ^b   Carr, Andrew S ^b   Carré, Matthieu ^a   Chevalier, Manuel ^a   Meadows, Michael E ^c   Pedro, Joel B ^d   Stager, J Curt ^e   Reimer, Paula J ^f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e PAUL SMITH S COLLEGE   (United States)

^f QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic overturning meridional circulation; Bipolar seesaw; Hyrax middens; Palaeoclimate; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

BIPOLAR SEESAW; HYRAX MIDDENS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALAEOCLIMATE; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; LAST DEGLACIATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIDDEN; OVERTURN; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TELECONNECTION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN AFRICA;

PROCAVIA CAPENSIS; PROCAVIIDAE;

EID: 84931748243     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.023     Document Type: Article

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