EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHERN-OCEAN SEDIMENTS FOR THE EFFECT OF NORTH-ATLANTIC DEEP-WATER FLUX ON CLIMATE

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作者
CHARLES, CD [1 ]
FAIRBANKS, RG [1 ]
机构
[1] COLUMBIA UNIV,DEPT GEOL,NEW YORK,NY 10025
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10.1038/355416a0
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The Southern Ocean is perhaps the only region where fluctuations in the global influence of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) can be monitored unambiguously in single deep-sea cores. A carbon isotope record from benthic foraminifera in a Southern Ocean core reveals large and rapid changes in the flux of NADW during the last deglaciation, and an abrupt increase in the NADW production rate which immediately preceded large-scale melting of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. This sudden strengthening of the NADW thermohaline cell provides strong evidence for the importance of NADW in glacial-interglacial climate change.
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页码:416 / 419
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