On the interpretation of Caribbean paleo-temperature reconstructions during the Younger Dryas

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Wan, Xiuquan ^a   Chang, Ping ^a   Saravanan, R ^a   Zhang, Rong ^b   Schmidt, Matthew W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESTORATION; SEAWATER; THERMAL EFFECTS;

NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODELS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROXY RECONSTRUCTION; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL SCALE; SURFACE COOLING; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 62749120276     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035805     Document Type: Article

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