Western Indian Ocean marine and terrestrial records of climate variability: A review and new concepts on land-ocean interactions since AD 1660

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-133

  Zinke, Jens ^a   Pfeiffer, M ^b   Timm, O ^c   Dullo, W Ch ^d   Brummer, G J A ^e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^e Royal NIOZ ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Coral oxygen isotopes; India; Indian Ocean; Terrestrial proxy records

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CORAL RECORD; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); SOUTH ASIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 59249095476     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-008-0365-5     Document Type: Review

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