Reliability of coral isotope records from the western Pacific warm pool: A comparison using age-optimized records

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 457-464

  Guilderson, Thomas P ^a,b   Schrag, Daniel P ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL RECORD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WARM POOL;

(TROPICAL WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033376330     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900024     Document Type: Article

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