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Glacial-Holocene Transition: Climate Pulsations and Sporadic Shutdown of Nadw Production

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Abrupt Climatic Change

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There is evidence that climate pulsations during the Wisconsin-Holocene transition were accompanied by strong fluctuations in the intensity of North Atlantic Deep Water production. It appears likely that these fluctuations were largely a result of pulsed meltwater input. The production of NADW is intimately tied to global heat budget asymmetries (North vs. South, Atlantic vs. Pacific) and of course to the regional heat budget of the North Atlantic, which in turn acts as a climate amplifier system. Both albedo feedback and carbon dioxide feedback mechanisms would seem to depend on (and influence) NADW production. The type of arguments used to reconstruct NADW production are illustrated using isotopie, micropaleontologic and sedimentologie data from a box core in the central South Atlantic.

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Berger, W.H., Burke, S., Vincent, E. (1987). Glacial-Holocene Transition: Climate Pulsations and Sporadic Shutdown of Nadw Production. In: Berger, W.H., Labeyrie, L.D. (eds) Abrupt Climatic Change. NATO ASI Series, vol 216. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3993-6_25

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