TY - JOUR T1 - Cooling of Northwest Atlantic slope waters during the Holocene JF - Geophysical Research Letters Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sachs, J. P. KW - circulation KW - deposition KW - ice KW - labrador sea KW - ocean KW - oscillation KW - sea-surface KW - stratigraphy KW - Temperature KW - variability AB - [1] Climate of the last 11,000 years, the Holocene, is usually described as warm and stable. Benchmark temperature records from central Greenland ice cores show none of the large, abrupt variations that characterized the prior 100,000 years of glacial climate. Nor do they show any substantial trend, indicating at most 1 degrees-3 degrees C of cooling. Here we show that the slope waters east of the United States and Canada cooled 4 degrees-10 degrees C during the Holocene. Declining insolation, increasing convection in the Labrador Sea, and equatorward shifting of the Gulf Stream path may have caused the cooling. VL - 34 SN - 0094-8276 IS - 3 N1 - 136deTimes Cited:35 Cited References Count:33 JO - Geophys Res Lett ER -