Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age?
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Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age?
L ('800-year) and short-term ('20-year) estimates of the rate of deep water formation in the Southern Ocean are in serious disagreement. This disagreement suggests to me that the rate of deep water formation may have been larger during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than it is now. Based on studies of ice-rafted debris in northern Atlantic sediments, a strong case (1) has been made that a cycle avera...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.4.1339