Communications Earth & Environment (Aug 2021)

Enhanced vertical mixing in the glacial ocean inferred from sedimentary carbon isotopes

  • Sophie-Berenice Wilmes,
  • J. A. Mattias Green,
  • Andreas Schmittner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00239-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Vertical mixing in the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum may have been enhanced, not reduced, due to more vigorous tidal dissipation, suggest an ensemble of ocean simulations and glacial sediment carbon isotope records.