Effects of abrupt changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation over the Amazon Basin: an isotopic and elemental approach

• Main Author: Crivellari, Stefano
• Other Authors: Chiessi, Cristiano Mazur
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP 2018
• Subjects: não disponível; AMOC; Geochemistry; Foraminifera; Late Pleistocene; Millennial events; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimatology; Precipitation; Alta; Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Nordeste; Sigla; Sob’; Antarc*; EPICA; ice core; North Atlantic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/44/44142/tde-03082020-134111/; https://doi.org/10.11606/T.44.2018.tde-03082020-134111

One of the most important finding emerging from paleoclimate research of the last 20 years is the fact that global climate has the potential to abruptly switch between states. Gradual changes in climate during the last 50 ka are punctuated by fast transitions whose onsets occurred within a few decad...