Alkenones in the Northwestern Mediterranean sea: Interannual variability and vertical transfer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1735-1738

  Sicre, Marie Alexandrine ^a,b,c   Ternois, Yann ^b   Miquel, Juan Carlos ^a   Marty, Jean Claude ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b IAEA Marine Environment Laboratory   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

ALKENONES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALKENONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033563617     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900353     Document Type: Article

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