Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeThe Environment of the Northern North-Atlantic Ocean: Modem Depositional Processes and their Historical Documentation.- An Overview of Sea-Ice Conditions in the Greenland Sea and the Relationship of Oceanic Sedimentation to the Ice Regime.- Constraints on Carbon Drawdown and Export in the Greenland Sea.- Particle Flux Variability in the Polar and Atlantic Biogeochemical Provinces of the Nordic Seas.- Biogenic Particle Sources and Vertical Flux Patterns in the Seasonally Ice-Covered Greenland Sea.- Distribution, Export and Alteration of Fossilizable Plankton in the Nordic Seas.- Distribution of Calcareous, Siliceous and Organic-Walled Planktic Microfossils in Surface Sediments of the Nordic Seas and their Relation to Surface-Water Masses.- Particle Transport, Distribution Patterns of Sedimentological Properties and Biological Communities.- Modem Ocean Current-Controlled Sediment Transport in the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian (GIN) Seas.- Records and Processes of Near-Bottom Sediment Transport along the Norwegian-Greenland Sea Margins during Holocene and Late Weichselian (Termination I) Times.- Patterns and Determinants of the Distribution and Structure of Benthic Faunal Assemblages in the Northern North Atlantic.- Exchange Processes across the Sediment Water Interface.- Bentho-Pelagic Coupling and Carbon Dynamics in the Northern North Atlantic.- Fluxes of Organic Carbon and Biogenic Silica Reaching the Seafloor: A Comparison of High Northern and Southern Latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean.- Concentration and Microbial Decomposition of Organic Material in Sediments of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.- Changes in the Hydrate Stability Zone on the Norwegian Margin and their Consequence for Methane and Carbon Releases Into the Oceanosphere.- Climate Change and Paleoceanography.- The Potential of Synoptic Plankton Analyses for Paleoclimatic Investigations: Five Plankton Groups from the Holocene Nordic Seas.- Paleoceanographic Proxies in the Northern North Atlantic.- Examination of the Use of Biomarker Proxies for the Reconstruction of Paleoceanographic Conditions in the Northern North Atlantic.- Fundamental Modes and Abrupt Changes in North Atlantic Circulation and Climate over the last 60 ky-Concepts, Reconstruction and Numerical Modeling.- Planktic and Benthic Foraminifera as Indicators of Past Ocean Changes in Surface and Deep Waters of the Nordic Seas.- Dansgaard-Oeschger Oscillations: A Hydrodynamic Theory.- Circulation of the Glacial Atlantic: A Synthesis of Global and Regional Modeling.- Present and Past Oceanographic Controls of Sediment Formation in the North Atlantic-Arctic Gateway (A Critical Appraisal of SFB 313 Scientific Results).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Environment of the Northern North Atlantic Ocean.- Sea-Ice Conditions in the Greenland Sea.- Constraints on Carbon Drawdown.- Particle Flux Variability.- Biogenic Particle Sources.- Distribution, Export and Alteration of Fossilizable Plankton.- Modern Ocean Current-Controlled Sediment Transport.- Near-Bottom Sediment Transport.- Distribution and Structure of Benthic Faunal Assemblages.- Exchange Processes across the Sediment Water Interface.- Bentho-Pelagic Coupling and Carbon Dynamics.- Fluxes of Organic Carbon and Biogenic Silica.- Microbial Decomposition of Organic Material.- Changes in the Hydrate Stability Zone.- Climate Change and Paleoceanography.- The Potential of Synoptic Plankton Analyses for Paleoclimatic Investigations.- Paleoceanographic Proxies.- The Use of Biomarker Proxies for the Reconstruction of Paleoceanographic Conditions.- Past Ocean Changes.- Dansgaard-Oeschger Oscillations.- Circulation of the Glacial Atlantic.
