Reconstruction of the ocean circulation in the subtropical western South Atlantic during the last 40,000 years

• Main Author: Pereira, Ligia Sauaya
• Other Authors: Figueira, Rubens Cesar Lopes
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP 2018
• Subjects: paleoceanografia; Atlântico Sul; célula de revolvimento meridional do Atlântico (AMOC); Corrente do Brasil; foraminíferos planctônicos; paleoprodutividade; planktonic foraminifera; paleoproductivity; paleoceanography; Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC); Brazil Current; South Atlantic; Alta; Sob’; Planktonic foraminifera; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/21/21136/tde-18022019-155731/; https://doi.org/10.11606/T.21.2019.tde-18022019-155731

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) has a central role in the interhemispheric transport of heat and changes in its intensity are known to have profound impact on global climate. Disturbances in the AMOC are also supposedly associated with the past changes in marine productivity a...