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North Atlantic Paleoceanography: The Last Five Million Years

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Stein, Ruediger, Kanamatsu, Toshiya, Alvarez-Zarikian, Carlos, Higgins, Sean M., Channell, Jim E. T., Aboud, Essam, Ohno, Masao, Acton, Gary D., Akimoto, Kazumi, Bailey, Ian, Bjorklund, Kjell R., Evans, Helen, Neilsen, Simmon H. H., Ferretti, Partizia, Gruetzner, Jean, Hagino, Kentaro, Harris, Robert N., Hatakeda, Kentaro, Hefter, Jens, Judge, Shelley A., Kullanek, Denise K., Nanayama, Futoshi, Rashid, Harunur, Sierro Sanchez, Francisco J., Voelker, Antje, and Zhai, Qiumin

Abstract:

In the North Atlantic, cold, relatively salty water sinks in the icy Labrador and Greenland seas, forming North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). This circulates through the global ocean, driving ocean overturning and global heat transport and, thus, impacting global climate. As one of the most climatically sensitive regions on Earth,...

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. References Bond, G. C., and R. Lotti (1995), Iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic on millennial time