Modes of eastern equatorial Pacific thermocline variability: Implications for ENSO dynamics over the last glacial period

Paleoceanography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Leduc, Guillaume ^a,b   Vidal, Laurence ^a   Cartapanis, Olivier ^a   Bard, Edouard ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; last glacial period; thermocline variability

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA DUTERTREI;

EID: 77954324030     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008PA001701     Document Type: Article

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