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Freshening of the Labrador Sea as a trigger for Little Ice Age development
Montserrat Alonso-Garcia
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College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Div. de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven
University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Jerry F. McManus
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA
Paola Moffa-Sanchez
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, CF10 3YE, Cardiff, UK
Wallace S. Broecker
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA
Benjamin P. Flower
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
deceased
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Short summary
This study focuses on understanding climatic and oceanographic variations that took place during the last 1000 years. We studied sediment samples from the Labrador Sea, looking for evidence of events of freshwater and iceberg discharges to this region. The importance of this study is to evaluate when these events happened and their consequences. The freshening of the Labrador Sea region may have played a major role in promoting cooling during the 15th to 19th centuries.
This study focuses on understanding climatic and oceanographic variations that took place during...
