Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1321-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1321-2013
Research article
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25 Jun 2013
Research article |  | 25 Jun 2013

A volcanically triggered regime shift in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean as a possible origin of the Little Ice Age

C. F. Schleussner and G. Feulner

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