Is ice-rafted sediment in a North Pole marine record evidence for perennial sea-ice cover?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 2052, 2015, Pages

  Tremblay, L B ^a,d   Schmidt, G A ^b   Pfirman, S ^c   Newton, R ^d   DeRepentigny, P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Palaeoclimate; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DEPOSITS; HEAT FLUX; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLES; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC CORING EXPEDITIONS; FUTURE PROJECTIONS; ICE-FREE CONDITIONS; ICE-RAFTED SEDIMENTS; PALAEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY SCIENCE; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES;

ICE;

EID: 84941254680     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2014.0168     Document Type: Article

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