Detecting Holocene changes in thermohaline circulation
Abstract
Throughout the last glacial cycle, reorganizations of deep ocean water masses were coincident with rapid millennial-scale changes in climate. Climate changes have been less severe during the present interglacial, but evidence for concurrent deep ocean circulation change is ambiguous.
Footnotes
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- Abbreviations:
- NADW,
- North Atlantic Deep Water;
- THC,
- thermohaline circulation;
- LIA,
- Little Ice Age;
- BC,
- box core;
- YD,
- Younger Dryas
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