Intermittent existence of a southern Californian upwelling cell during submillennial climate change of the last 60 kyr

Paleoceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Hendy, I L ^a   Pedersen, T F ^b   Kennett, J P ^c   Tada, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Paleoclimate; Productivity; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; SEDIMENT CORE; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; POINT CONCEPTION; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 3543077021     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003PA000965     Document Type: Article

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