Mediterranean climate variability documented in oxygen isotope records from northern Red Sea corals-A review

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 71, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 232-241

  Felis, Thomas ^a   Rimbu, Norel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c Climed Norad   (Romania)

Author keywords

corals; Mediterranean; Middle East; North Atlantic Oscillation; oxygen isotopes; palaeoclimate; Red Sea

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARID ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBONATE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL; CORAL REEF; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPORATION; HOLOCENE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LITERATURE REVIEW; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTION; WATER BUDGET;

INDIAN OCEAN; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77952102348     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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