Regionally coherent Little Ice Age cooling in the Atlantic Warm Pool

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Richey, Julie N ^a   Poore, Richard Z ^b   Flower, Benjamin P ^a   Quinn, Terrence M ^c   Hollander, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HEMISPHERIC COOLING; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; PROXY RECORDS; SPATIAL EXTENT; WARM POOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

COOLING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; FORAMINIFERA; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNESIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARM POOL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 72049095545     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040445     Document Type: Article

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