Freshwater Discharge, Sediment Transport, and Modeled Climate Impacts of the Final Drainage of Glacial Lake Agassiz

• Published in: Journal of Climate
• Main Author: Bush, John W. M.
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2008
• Subjects: Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS); Canada; Hudson; Lent; Glacial Lake; Hudson Strait; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52530

A cold event at around 8200 calendar years BP and the release, at around that time, of a huge freshwater outburst from ice-dammed glacial Lake Agassiz have lent support to the idea that the flood triggered the cold event. Some suggest that the freshwater addition caused a weakening of the North Atla...