An interhemispheric mechanism for glacial abrupt climate change

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 2015, Pages 2897-2908

  Banderas, Rubén ^a,b   Alvarez Solas, Jorge ^a,b   Robinson, Alexander ^a,b   Montoya, Marisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abrupt climate change; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation; Dansgaard Oeschger events; Paleoclimate modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939883948     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2211-8     Document Type: Article

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