Impact of a permanent El Niñ (El Padre) and Indian Ocean Dipole in warm Pliocene climates

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Shukla, Sonali P ^d   Chandler, Mark A ^a,b   Jonas, Jeff ^a,b   Sohl, Linda E ^a,b   Mankoff, Ken ^a,b   Dowsett, Harry ^c  

^a Center for Climate Systems Research   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANETARY WAVE; PLIOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 70349679102     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001682     Document Type: Article

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