Andean uplift, ocean cooling and Atacama hyperaridity: A climate modeling perspective

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 39-50

  Garreaud, René D ^a   Molina, Alejandra ^a   Farias, Marcelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Andean uplift; aridity; Atacama; climate model; ocean cooling

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; ATACAMA; ATACAMA DESERT; CENTRAL ANDES; CLIMATE MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; COLD WATERS; DRY CONDITION; GLOBAL CLIMATE MODEL; HUMBOLDT CURRENT; LATE MIOCENE; LOW LEVEL; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MODELING STUDIES; PACIFIC OCEAN; REGIONAL WARMING; SEA SURFACES; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE CHANGE; SHARP CONTRAST; SOUTH AMERICA; WEST COAST; WET CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LANDFORMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; REINFORCEMENT; TROPICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANDEAN OROGENY; ARIDITY; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; GLOBAL WARMING; MIOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPLIFT;

ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [ANDES]; HUMBOLDT CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 77249169126     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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