The influence of Southern Ocean surface buoyancy forcing on glacial-interglacial changes in the global deep ocean stratification

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2016, Pages 8124-8132

  Sun, S ^a   Eisenman, I ^a   Stewart, A L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehensive climate model; deep ocean stratification; Last Glacial Maximum; Southern Ocean; surface buoyancy forcing

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; CLIMATE MODELS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; WATER;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEEP OCEAN; DENSITY STRATIFICATION; FRESHWATER FLUXES; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DEEP WATER; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; SEA SURFACE; STRATIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84982958034     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070058     Document Type: Article

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