Glacial reduction and millennial-scale variations in Drake Passage throughflow

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 44, 2015, Pages 13496-13501

  Lamy, Frank ^a   Arz, Helge W ^b   Kilian, Rolf ^c,d   Lange, Carina B ^e   Lembke Jene, Lester ^a   Wengler, Marc ^a   Kaiser, Jérôme ^b   Baeza Urrea, Oscar ^c   Hall, Ian R ^f   Harada, Naomi ^g   Tiedemann, Ralf ^a  

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

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antarctic circumpolar current; Drake passage; Glacial interglacial changes; Paleoceanography; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; FLOW RATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; OCEAN CURRENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 84946606298     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1509203112     Document Type: Article

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