Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7093, 2006, Pages 610-613

  Sluijs, Appy ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^b   Pagani, Mark ^c   Woltering, Martijn ^b   Brinkhuis, Henk ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a,b   Dickens, Gerald R ^d   Huber, Matthew ^e   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a   Stein, Ruediger ^f   Matthiessen, Jens ^f   Lourens, Lucas J ^a   Pedentchouk, Nikolai ^c   Backman, Jan ^g   Moran, Kathryn ^h   Clemens, Steve ⁱ   Cronin, Thomas ^j   Eynaud, Frédérique ^k   Gattacceca, Jérôme ^l   Jakobsson, Martin ^g   Jordan, Ric ^m   Kaminski, Michael ⁿ   King, John ^o   Koc, Nalân ^p   Martinez, Nahysa C ^q   McInroy, David ^r   Moore Jr , Theodore C ^s   O'Regan, Matthew ^o   Onodera, Jonaotaro ^t   Pälike, Heiko ^u   Rea, Brice ^v   Rio, Domenico ^w   Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko ^x   Smith, David C ^o   St John, Kristen E K ^y   Suto, Itsuki ^z   Suzuki, Noritoshi ^aa   Takahashi, Kozo ^t   Watanabe, Mahito ^ab   Yamamoto, Masanobu ^ac   more..

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^l CEREGE   (France)

^m YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^o UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^p NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^q BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^t KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^u UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^x JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^y JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^aa TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ab NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^ac HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS;

ARCTIC CORING EXPEDITION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MARINE SEDIMENTARY; PALAEOCENE/EOCENE THERMAL;

THERMAL EFFECTS;

ICE; SEA WATER;

ALBEDO; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOCENE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYPSITHERMAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

ANOXIA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; DISASTER; EOCENE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT; LATITUDE; MODEL; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WIND;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; NORTH POLE;

EID: 33745272227     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04668     Document Type: Article

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