North Atlantic Deep Water Production during the Last Glacial Maximum

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Howe, Jacob N W ^a   Piotrowski, Alexander M ^a   Noble, Taryn L ^a,b   Mulitza, Stefan ^c   Chiessi, Cristiano M ^d   Bayon, Germain ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NEODYMIUM; SEA WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER VENTILATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; WATER MASS;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARBON CYCLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLACIATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84973311789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11765     Document Type: Article

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