Relative importance of meridional and zonal sea surface temperature gradients for the onset of the ice ages and Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Brierley, Christopher M ^a   Fedorov, Alexey V ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; ICE SHEET; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLIOCENE; POLAR REGION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPICAL REGION; WARM POOL;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

ZANCLEA;

EID: 77953577436     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001809     Document Type: Article

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