Changes in the geometry and strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial (20-50 ka)

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2061-2075

  Burckel, Pierre ^a,b   Waelbroeck, Claire ^a   Luo, Yiming ^c   Roche, Didier M ^a,d   Pichat, Sylvain ^e   Jaccard, Samuel L ^f   Gherardi, Jeanne ^a   Govin, Aline ^a   Lippold, Jörg ^f   Thil, François ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; GEOMETRY; HEINRICH EVENT; HOLOCENE; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; OVERTURN; STRENGTH; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND;

EID: 84994731774     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-2061-2016     Document Type: Article

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