Investigating the impact of Lake Agassiz drainage routes on the 8.2 ka cold event with a climate model

The 8.2 ka event is the most prominent abrupt climate change in the Holocene and is often believed to result from catastrophic drainage of proglacial lakes Agassiz and Ojibway (LAO) that routed through the Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea into the North Atlantic Ocean, and perturbed Atlantic meridion...

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Main Authors: Y.-X. Li, H. Renssen, A. P. Wiersma, T. E. Törnqvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-08-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/5/471/2009/cp-5-471-2009.pdf