El Niño as a mediator of the solar influence on climate

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Emile Geay, Julien ^a,b   Cane, Mark ^a   Seager, Richard ^a   Kaplan, Alexey ^a   Almasi, Peter ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 35948966120     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001304     Document Type: Article

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