Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6755, 1999, Pages 779-782

  Haug, Gerald H ^a,f   Sigman, Daniel M ^b   Tiedemann, Ralf ^c   Pedersen, Thomas F ^d   Sarnthein, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOCLINE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; STRATIFICATION;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; NATURAL SCIENCE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033592668     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44550     Document Type: Article

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