Salt exchange in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway since the Last Glacial Maximum: A compensating effect between Agulhas Current changes and salinity variations?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1318-1327

  Simon, Margit H ^a,b   Gong, Xun ^a,c   Hall, Ian R ^a   Ziegler, Martin ^a,d   Barker, Stephen ^a   Knorr, Gregor ^a,c   Van Der Meer, Marcel T J ^e   Kasper, Sebastian ^e   Schouten, Stefan ^d,e  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

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

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agulhas Current; Agulhas leakage; last glacial termination; salinity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OVERTURN; PALEOSALINITY;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84952630884     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002842     Document Type: Article

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