A 0.5-Million-year record of millennial-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5404, 1999, Pages 971-975

  McManus, Jerry F ^a   Oppo, Delia W ^a   Cullen, James L ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; OXYGEN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENLAND; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033548040     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5404.971     Document Type: Article

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