An 8-century tropical Atlantic SST record from the Cariaco Basin: Baseline variability, twentieth-century warming, and Atlantic hurricane frequency

Paleoceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Black, David E ^a   Abahazi, Matthew A ^b   Thunell, Robert C ^c   Kaplan, Alexey ^d   Tappa, Eric J ^c   Peterson, Larry C ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINA BULLOIDES;

EID: 39749164455     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001427     Document Type: Article

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