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Year of Publication:
1992
Journal Title:
Nature
Journal Date:
Jan 30
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Volume:
355
Issue:
6359
Pages:
416-419
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ISBN Number:
0028-0836
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ISI:A1992HB53000057
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Abstract:
The Southern Ocean is perhaps the only region where fluctuations in the global influence of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) can be monitored unambiguously in single deep-sea cores. A carbon isotope record from benthic foraminifera in a Southern Ocean core reveals large and rapid changes in the flux of NADW during the last deglaciation, and an abrupt increase in the NADW production rate which immediately preceded large-scale melting of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. This sudden strengthening of the NADW thermohaline cell provides strong evidence for the importance of NADW in glacial-interglacial climate change.
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