Distinguishing current effects in sediments delivered to the ocean by ice. II. Glacial to Holocene changes in high latitude North Atlantic upper ocean flows

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: McCave, I. N., Andrews, J.T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: 01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Island; Bering Strait; Greenland; Orphan Knoll; Pacific; Reykjanes; Baffin; Climate change; Denmark Strait; East Greenland; east greenland current; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4739/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105902

Shallow ocean flows in the northern North Atlantic are of key importance in the regulation of Earth's climate. In the northern North Atlantic nutrient-rich cold Arctic Ocean outflow (of modified Atlantic water) plus Pacific and ice-melt waters flow in the East Greenland Current (EGC) and in the...