Millennial climate oscillations in NE Pacific surface waters over the last 82 kyr: New evidence from alkenones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 59-1

  Seki, Osamu ^a   Ishiwatari, Ryoshi ^a   Matsumoto, Kohei ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

SURFACE WATERS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALKENONE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATE INSTABILITY; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; HEINRICH EVENTS; LAST GLACIAL; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TIME-SCALES; WATER MASS;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0036946063     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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