Coral Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca records in Con Dao Island off the Mekong Delta: Assessment of their potential for monitoring ENSO and East Asian monsoon

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-352

  Mitsuguchi, Takehiro ^a,b   Dang, Phong X ^a,c   Kitagawa, Hiroyuki ^d   Uchida, Tetsuo ^e   Shibata, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coral skeleton; East Asian monsoon; ENSO; Paleoclimate proxy; Sea surface temperature; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CALCIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORAL RECORD; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MAGNESIUM; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRONTIUM; TIME SERIES; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CON DAO; EURASIA; MEKONG DELTA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 53149106577     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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