Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 946-949

  Renssen, Hans ^a   Mairesse, Aurelien ^b   Goosse, Hugues ^b   Mathiot, Pierre ^c   Heiri, Oliver ^d   Roche, Didier M ^a,e   Nisancioglu, Kerim H ^f   Valdes, Paul J ^g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LAST DEGLACIATION; MELTWATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PERTURBATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84948398339     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2557     Document Type: Article

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