Coupled European and Greenland last glacial dust activity driven by North Atlantic climate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 50, 2017, Pages E10632-E10638

  Újvári, Gábor ^a,b   Stevens, Thomas ^c   Molnár, Mihály ^a   Demény, Attila ^a   Lambert, Fabrice ^d   Varga, György ^a   Timothy Jull, A J ^a,e,f   Páll Gergely, Barna ^a   Buylaert, Jan Pieter ^b,g   Kovács, János ^h  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^e The University of Arizona   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dansgaard Oeschger events; Dust; European loess; Mollusk shell; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DUST; EUROPEAN; GREENLAND; HUNGARY; LOESS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETATION; ANIMAL SHELL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; RADIOMETRIC DATING; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85038578724     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712651114     Document Type: Article

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