Trade wind forcing of upwelling, seasonality, and Heinrich events as a response to sub-Milankovitch climate variability

Paleoceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 568-576

  Little, Mark G ^a   Schneider, Ralph R ^b   Kroon, Dick ^a   Price, Brian ^a   Summerhayes, Colin P ^c   Segl, Monika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA;

FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA; HEINRICH EVENT; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC ASSEMBLAGES; TRADE WINDS; UPWELLING;

EID: 0031423893     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97PA00823     Document Type: Article

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