Variable intensity of teleconnections during the late Holocene in subtropical North America from an isotopic study of speleothem from Florida

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  van Beynen, Philip E ^a   Asmerom, Yemane ^b   Polyak, Victor ^b   Soto, Limaris ^a   Polk, Jason S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

EL NIÑO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION (ENSO); HOLOCENE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION (PDO); STALAGMITE;

GEOPHYSICS;

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPELEOTHEM;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36549021106     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031046     Document Type: Article

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