Current Connection: Scientists Detail How Shifts in the Atlantic Ocean Impacted the Alaskan Climate 13,000 Years Ago

Current connection: Scientists detail how shifts in the Atlantic Ocean impacted the Alaskan climate 13,000 years ago

Some newly published findings from an Idaho State University professor and his colleagues point out how changes to currents an ocean away can impact climates on the other side of the globe. The new paper published in Nature Communications explains how Bruce Finney, professor in the departments of biological sciences and geosciences at ISU, and his collaborators, Lesleigh Anderson, research geologist with the United States Geological Survey, and …

What is the Atlantic’s effect on Alaskan climate?

Atlantic Ocean shifts left a climate fingerprint in Alaska Scientists have reported evidence that changes in the Atlantic Ocean influenced Alaskan climate about 13,000 years ago, linking far apart regions through shifting ocean currents. The study focus is on how currents reconfigured climate…