Recent increase in surface-water stability during warming off California as recorded in marine sediments

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1019-1022

  Weinheimer, A L ^a   Kennett, J P ^b   Cayan, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; NUTRIENTS; PLANKTON; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ANTI-CYCLONIC GYRE; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; NUTRIENT-RICH WATER; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; THERMOCLINE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SURFACE WATERS;

PRODUCTIVITY; STABILIZATION; SURFACE WATER; THERMOCLINE; UPWELLING; WARMING;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033397661     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<1019:RIISWS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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