Variations of the Last Glacial Warm Pool: Sea surface temperature contrasts between the open western Pacific and South China Sea

Paleoceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Chen, Muhong ^a   Li, Qianyu ^b,c   Zheng, Fan ^a   Tan, Xianzan ^a   Xiang, Rong ^a   Jian, Zhimin ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH CHINA SEA; WORLD;

GLOBIGERINOIDES;

EID: 26244466165     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004PA001057     Document Type: Article

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