Intense hurricane activity over the past 5,000 years controlled by El Niño and the West African monsoon

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7143, 2007, Pages 465-468

  Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^a   Woodruff, Jonathan D ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HURRICANE; LAGOON; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; HURRICANE; LAGOON; OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; SEDIMENT;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 34249336417     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05834     Document Type: Article

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