Indications for a North Atlantic ocean circulation regime shift at the onset of the Little Ice Age

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 45, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages 3623-3633

  Schleussner, C F ^a,b   Divine, D V ^c,d   Donges, J F ^b,e   Miettinen, A ^c   Donner, R V ^b  

^a CLIMATE ANALYTICS   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Horizontal visibility graphs; Last millennium; Little Ice Age; Marine sediments; Time series irreversibility; Tipping element; Volcanic forcing

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84947484452     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2561-x     Document Type: Article

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