Enhanced multidecadal climate variability in the seventeenth century from coral isotope records in the western Indian Ocean

Paleoceanography

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Damassa, Thomas D ^a   Cole, Julia E ^a,b   Barnett, Heidi R ^a   Ault, Toby R ^a   McClanahan, Timothy R ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservition Society   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL RECORD; DECADAL VARIATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST);

ANTHOZOA; DIPLOASTREA HELIOPORA;

EID: 33751297755     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005PA001217     Document Type: Article

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