Reconstructing the southern South China Sea upper water column structure since the Last Glacial Maximum: Implications for the East Asian winter monsoon development

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Steinke, Stephan ^a,b   Mohtadi, Mahyar ^a   Groeneveld, Jeroen ^c   Lin, Li Chuan ^d   Löwemark, Ludvig ^e   Chen, Min Te ^d   Rendle Bühring, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Tongji University   (China)

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

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LOESS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIXED LAYER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPPER OCEAN; WATER COLUMN;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 77954370537     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001850     Document Type: Article

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