Multidecadal changes in Iceland Scotland Overflow Water vigor over the last 600 years and its relationship to climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2111-2117

  Mjell, Tor Lien ^a,b,c   Ninnemann, Ulysses S ^a,c   Kleiven, Helga F ^a,c   Hall, Ian R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Uni Research   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abrupt rapid climate change; climate dynamics; decadal ocean variability; overflows; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ACCUMULATION RATES; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CENTENNIAL VARIABILITY; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; DECADAL OCEAN VARIABILITY; DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; OVERFLOWS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEEP SEA; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCURRENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GARDAR DRIFT; ICELAND BASIN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84960156013     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068227     Document Type: Article

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