Forcing of Atlantic equatorial and subpolar millennial cycles by precession

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5294, 1996, Pages 1867-1870

  McIntyre, Andrew ^a   Molfino, Barbara ^a,b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Central Intelligence Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE;

CLIMATE CYCLE; FORCING; HEINRICH EVENT; HEINRICH EVENTS; PALAEOCLIMATE; PRECESSION;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030303362     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5294.1867     Document Type: Article

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