Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events

Stephen Barker (), James Chen, Xun Gong, Lukas Jonkers, Gregor Knorr and David Thornalley
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Stephen Barker: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University
James Chen: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University
Xun Gong: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University
Lukas Jonkers: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University
Gregor Knorr: Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
David Thornalley: University College London

Nature, 2015, vol. 520, issue 7547, 333-336

Abstract: A delay between surface cooling and the arrival of ice-rafted debris at a site southwest of Iceland over the past four glacial cycles implies that icebergs typically arrived too late to have triggered cooling, although the freshwater derived from melting icebergs may provide a positive feedback for cold stadial conditions.

Date: 2015
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