Abrupt mid-Holocene onset of centennial-scale climate variability on the Peru-Chile Margin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Chazen, Caitlin R ^a   Altabet, Mark A ^b   Herbert, Timothy D ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; ENSO EVENTS; GEOCHEMICAL PROXIES; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIVITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE;

CHILEAN MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 72149134214     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039749     Document Type: Article

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