Links between the onset of modern Walker circulation and the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 389-392

  McClymont, Erin L ^a,b   Rosell Melé, Antoni ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alkenone; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Glaciation; ODP; Pacific; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; MID-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE TRANSITIONS; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES (SST);

HEAT FLUX; ICE; MOISTURE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; UNDERWATER DRILLING; WATER WAVES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE FORCING; GLACIATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; WALKER CIRCULATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); WORLD;

EID: 18944396118     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21292.1     Document Type: Article

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