Low latitude ice cores record Pacific sea surface temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Bradley, R S ^a   Vuille, M ^a   Hardy, D ^a   Thompson, L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FREEZING; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE CONTROL; SNOW; ICE; ICE CONTROL; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

SURFACE TEMPERATURES; ACCUMULATION RATES; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; FREEZING LEVELS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

SEA ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ICE CORE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BOLIVIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU;

EID: 0037828500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016546     Document Type: Article

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