Response of the tropical Atlantic thermocline to Late Quaternary Trade Wind changes

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 374-383

  Wolff, Tobias ^a   Mulitza, Stefan ^a   Rühlemann, Carsten ^a   Wefer, Gerold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONSOON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; THERMOCLINE; TRADE WIND; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032843490     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900011     Document Type: Article

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