Evidence for active El Niño Southern Oscillation variability in the Late Miocene greenhouse climate

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 419-422

  Galeotti, Simone ^a   von der Heydt, Anna ^b   Huber, Matthew ^c   Bice, David ^d   Dijkstra, Henk ^b   Jilbert, Tom ^e   Lanci, Luca ^a   Reichart, Gert Jan ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS; CYCLICITY; EVAPORITES; FULLY-COUPLED; GREENHOUSE CLIMATES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LATE MIOCENE; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIATIONS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLACIATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MIOCENE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 77953922282     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30629.1     Document Type: Article

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