North Atlantic ocean circulation and abrupt climate change during the last glaciation.

• Main Authors: Henry, LG, McManus, JF, Curry, WB, Roberts, NL, Piotrowski, AM, Keigwin, LD
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2016
• Subjects: 0405 Oceanography; 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; 0403 Geology; Hudson; Hudson Strait; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/296364; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.43413

The most recent ice age was characterized by rapid and hemispherically asynchronous climate oscillations, whose origin remains unresolved. Variations in oceanic meridional heat transport may contribute to these repeated climate changes, which were most pronounced during marine isotope stage 3, the g...