Centennial-scale Holocene climate variations amplified by Antarctic Ice Sheet discharge

Nature

Volumn 541, Issue 7635, 2017, Pages 72-76

  Bakker, Pepijn ^a,f   Clark, Peter U ^a   Golledge, Nicholas R ^b,c   Schmittner, Andreas ^a   Weber, Michael E ^d,e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISCHARGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; ANTARCTICA;

EID: 85016146312     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20582     Document Type: Article

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