ENSO and interdecadal climate variability over the last century documented by geochemical records of two coral cores from the South West Pacific

Advances in Geosciences

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages 23-27

  Ourbak, T ^a,b   Correge T ^b   Malaize B ^a   Le Cornec, F ^b   Charlier, K ^a   Peypouquet, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; WALLIS AND FUTUNA; WALLIS ISLANDS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33646367214     PISSN: 16807340     EISSN: 16807359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/adgeo-6-23-2006     Document Type: Article

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