Sea surface temperature differences between the western equatorial Pacific and northern South China Sea since the Pliocene and their paleoclimatic implications

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Jia, Guodong ^a   Chen, Fajin ^a   Peng, Ping'an ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ALKENONE; EAST ASIAN MONSOONS; GRADIENT EVOLUTIONS; HIGHER LATITUDES; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATIONS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH CHINA SEAS; SST GRADIENTS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; WALKER CIRCULATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALKENONE; HADLEY CELL; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLIOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 57849160766     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034792     Document Type: Article

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