Evidence of multidecadal climate variability and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation from a Gulf of Mexico sea-surface temperature-proxy record

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 477-484

  Poore, Richard Z ^a   Delong, Kristine L ^a   Richey, Julie N ^b   Quinn, Terrence M ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GULF COAST; GULF OF MEXICO; HISTORICAL RECORDS; HURRICANE LANDFALL; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; PROXY DATA; PROXY RECORDS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMILAR PATTERN; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-SCALES; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING RECONSTRUCTION;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; LANDFORMS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HURRICANE EVENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERIODICITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 71249146338     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0154-6     Document Type: Article

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