Antarctic Stratification, Atmospheric Water Vapor, and Heinrich Events: A Hypothesis for Late Pleistocene Deglaciations

Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts - Past and Future Changes of Meridional Overturning

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 335-349

  Sigman, Daniel M ^a   De Boer, Agatha M ^a,c   Haug, Gerald H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

circulation; Meridional; overturning

Indexed keywords

BOILER CIRCULATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC FRESHWATER; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; FRESHWATER TRANSPORTS; INSOLATION GRADIENTS; MERIDIONAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OVERTURNING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84951209650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/173GM21     Document Type: Chapter

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