Surface-water freshening: A cause for the onset of North Pacific stratification from 2.75 Ma onward?

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 64, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 49-52

  Nie, Junsheng ^a,b,c   King, John ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^d   Clemens, Steve ^e   Prell, Warren ^e   Fang, Xiaomin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

monsoon; North Pacific; ocean stratification; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; GLACIATION; JET STREAM; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 55549097778     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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