Early Pliocene (pre-Ice age) El Niño-like global climate: Which El Niño?

Geosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 337-365

  Molnar, Peter ^a   Cane, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Early pliocene; El Ni o; Ice age; Paleoceanogrpahy; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

EL NINO; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ICE SHEET; MIOCENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMOCLINE;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 50649094864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00103.1     Document Type: Article

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