Variability of El Niño/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 420, Issue 6912, 2002, Pages 162-165

  Moy, Christopher M ^a,e   Seltzer, Geoffrey O ^a   Rodbell, Donald T ^b   Anderson, David M ^c,d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Colorado ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; SEDIMENTATION;

INSOLATION;

GEOLOGY;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTATION; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; COLOR; DYNAMICS; ECUADOR; EL NINO; HOLOCENE; OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARBON; CLIMATE; ECUADOR; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERU; POLLEN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0037079021     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01194     Document Type: Article

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