Mid to late Holocene strengthening of the East Greenland Current linked to warm subsurface Atlantic water

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 129, Issue , 2015, Pages 296-307

  Perner, Kerstin ^a   Moros, Matthias ^a   Lloyd, Jeremy M ^b   Jansen, Eystein ^c,d   Stein, Rüdiger ^e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

East Greenland Current; Foraminifera; Mid to late Holocene; Polar front; Return Atlantic Current; Subpolar gyre; Subpolar north Atlantic

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; MOORING; SEA ICE; WATER;

EAST GREENLAND CURRENTS; FORAMINIFERA; MID TO LATE HOLOCENE; POLAR FRONT; SUBPOLAR GYRES; SUBPOLAR NORTH ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GYRE; HOLOCENE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; POLAR FRONT; SEA ICE; WARM WATER; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84946086255     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.007     Document Type: Article

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