High-latitude influence on the eastern equatorial Pacific climate in the early Pleistocene epoch

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6976, 2004, Pages 720-723

  Liu, Zhongul ^a   Herbert, Timothy O ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; ICE; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS; TEMPERATURE;

INSOLATION; LATITUDES;

METEOROLOGY;

OBLIQUITY; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

ALTITUDE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT; TROPIC CLIMATE; ALGA; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

ALKENE; ICE; SEA WATER;

ALGAE; ALKENES; CLIMATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ICE; MARINE BIOLOGY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1442280717     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02338     Document Type: Article

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