Marine climate variability during the last millennium: The Loch Sunart record, Scotland, UK

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 1633-1647

  Cage, A G ^a   Austin, W E N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BOTTOM WATER; CLIMATE TRANSITION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE WARMING; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL MODELING; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; SCOTLAND; SCOTLAND , UK; SUESS EFFECT; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE VARIATION; FJORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

HIGHLAND; LOCH SUNART; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954816031     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.014     Document Type: Article

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