Temperature and surface-ocean water balance of the mid-Holocene tropical western Pacific

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5353, 1998, Pages 1014-1017

  Gagan, Michael K ^a   Ayliffe, Linda K ^a   Hopley, David ^b   Cali, Joseph A ^a   Mortimer, Graham E ^a   Chappell, John ^a   McCulloch, Malcolm T ^a   Head, M John ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

CALCIUM; CORAL; HOLOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM; TEMPERATURE; WATER BALANCE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CORAL; EVAPORATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; THERMOMETRY;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL WEST);

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0032512734     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5353.1014     Document Type: Article

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