A permanent El Niño-like state during the Pliocene?

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Haywood, Alan M ^a,b   Valdes, Paul J ^c   Peck, Victoria L ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 34249683357     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001323     Document Type: Article

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