Oceanic evidence of climate change in southern Australia over the last three countries

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Thresher, Ronald ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^a,b   Koslow, J Anthony ^a   Weidman, Chris ^c   Adkins, Jess ^d   Proctor, Craig ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate proxy; Coral age validation; Coral chemistry; Southern ocean; Sub tropical ridge

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ISOTHERMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

OCEANOGRAPHIC CHANGES; SHOALING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; CORAL RECORD; DEEP WATER; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 3042825159     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018869     Document Type: Article

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