A cold and fresh ocean surface in the Nordic Seas during MIS 11: Significance for the future ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 10,929-10,937

  Kandiano, Evgenia S ^a,b   van der Meer, Marcel T J ^a   Bauch, Henning A ^b,c   Helmke, Jan ^b   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

MIS 11; reconstructions of salinity changes; temperature reconstructions; the Nordic Seas

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MELTING; REPAIR; SURFACE WATERS;

HYDROGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORDIC SEAS; SALINITY CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE WATER LAYER; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THROUGHFLOW; WARM WATER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84992344976     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070294     Document Type: Article

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