Proxy dependence of the temporal pattern of deglacial warming in the tropical South China Sea: toward resolving seasonality

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 688-700

  Steinke, Stephan ^a   Kienast, Markus ^b   Groeneveld, Jeroen ^a   Lin, Li Chuan ^c   Chen, Min Te ^c   Rendle Bühring, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DEGLACIATION; PROXY DEPENDENCE; TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

GLACIERS;

ALGA; ALKENONE; DEGLACIATION; HEINRICH EVENT; MORPHOTYPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ALGAE; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 42749088077     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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