Sea surface temperature variability during the last glacial-interglacial cycle: Assessing the magnitude and pattern of climate change in the North Atlantic

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-25

  Chapman, Mark R ^a,b   Shackleton, Nicholas J ^a   Duplessy, Jean Claude ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Heinrich events; North Atlantic; Palaeoceanography; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034653537     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(99)00168-6     Document Type: Article

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