More humid interglacials in Ecuador during the past 500 kyr linked to latitudinal shifts of the equatorial front and the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the eastern tropical Pacific

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Rincón Martínez, Daniel ^a   Lamy, Frank ^a   Contreras, Sergio ^b   Leduc, Guillaume ^c   Bard, Edouard ^c   Saukel, Cornelia ^d   Blanz, Thomas ^c   MacKensen, Andreas ^a   Tiedemann, Ralf ^a  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GLACIAL TRANSPORT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; INTERGLACIAL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RUNOFF; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ECUADOR; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77954338718     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001868     Document Type: Article

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