Coherent high- and low-latitude climate variability during the holocene warm period

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5474, 2000, Pages 2198-2202

  DeMenocal, Peter ^a   Ortiz, Joseph ^a   Guilderson, Tom ^b   Sarnthein, Michael ^c  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034705537     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5474.2198     Document Type: Article

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