Extent and Variability of the Meridional Atlantic Circulation in the Eastern Nordic Seas During Marine Isotope Stage 5 and its Influence on the Inception of the Last Glacial

The Nordic Seas: An Integrated Perspective: Oceanography, Climatology, Biogeochemistry, and Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 323-339

  Risebrobakken, Bjørg ^a   Dokken, Trond ^a   Jansen, Eystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climatic changes Arctic regions; Ocean atmosphere interaction Arctic regions; Oceanography Arctic regions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FERROELECTRIC RAM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ICE; ISOTOPES;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; ICE RAFTED DEBRIS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NORTHERN LATITUDES; OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84952838223     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/158GM20     Document Type: Chapter

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