Evaluating southern Red Sea corals as a proxy record for the Asian monsoon

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 381-394

  Klein, R ^a,d   Tudhope, A W ^a   Chilcott, C P ^a   Patzold J ^b   Abdulkarim, Z ^c   Fine, M ^d   Fallick, A E ^e   Loya, Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ASMARA   (Eritrea)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

El Nino; O 18 O 16; Paleoclimatology; Porites; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECORD; CORAL; EL NINO; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MONSOON; MONSOONS; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY;

RED SEA;

PORITES;

EID: 0030768096     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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