La Niña-like conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific and a stronger Choco jet in the northern Andes during the last glaciation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Martínez, Ignacio ^a   Keigwin, Lloyd ^b   Barrows, Timothy T ^c   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^d   Southon, John ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT   (Colombia)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern equatorial Pacific; La Ni a; Last glacial maximum; Modern analogue technique; Panama Basin; Planktonic foraminifera

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LA NINA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEDIMENT CORE;

(EQUATORIAL EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBOROTALIA; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA;

EID: 0142090471     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002PA000877     Document Type: Article

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