Holocene multidecadal- to millennial-scale variations in Iceland-Scotland overflow and their relationship to climate

Paleoceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 558-569

  Mjell, Tor Lien ^a,b,c   Ninnemann, Ulysses S ^a,c   Eldevik, Tor ^a,c   Kleiven, Helga Kikki F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

ISOW; Nordic Seas overflows; THC

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; HEAT TRANSFER; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEDIMENT CORE; TIMESCALE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GARDAR DRIFT; ICELAND; NORWEGIAN SEA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84935890632     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002737     Document Type: Article

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