Coral microatolls from the central Pacific record late Holocene El Niño

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1511-1514

  Woodroffe, Colin D ^a   Gagan, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ISOTOPE ANOMALIES; LATE HOLOCENE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL CLIMATES; VERTICAL GROWTH;

NICKEL;

ANTHOZOA; DISCOIDAE; PORITES;

CORAL REEF; EL NINO; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034518013     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011407     Document Type: Article

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