Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Annually resolved North Atlantic marine climate over the last millennium

  • D. J. Reynolds,
  • J. D. Scourse,
  • P. R. Halloran,
  • A. J. Nederbragt,
  • A. D. Wanamaker,
  • P. G. Butler,
  • C. A. Richardson,
  • J. Heinemeier,
  • J. Eiríksson,
  • K. L. Knudsen,
  • I. R. Hall

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13502
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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A lack of annually resolved climate records from the marine archive limits our understanding of oceanic processes. Here, the authors present a millennial-length, annually-resolved and absolutely-dated marine δ18O record from the shells of marine bivalves and offer insight into North Atlantic climate dynamics.