Consistent relationship between global climate and surface nitrate utilization in the western subarctic Pacific throughout the last 500 ka

Paleoceanography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Galbraith, Eric D ^a,b   Kienast, Markus ^c   Jaccard, Samuel L ^d   Pedersen, Thomas F ^e   Brunelle, Brigitte D ^b   Sigman, Daniel M ^b   Kiefer, Thorsten ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f Past Global Changes International Project Office   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC);

EID: 50649114027     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007PA001518     Document Type: Article

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