Inferring moisture transport across Central America: Can modern analogs of climate variability help reconcile paleosalinity records?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1317-1321

  Prange, Matthias ^a   Steph, Silke ^b,c   Schulz, Michael ^a   Keigwin, Lloyd D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EAST PACIFIC; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; SEASONAL CYCLE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; VAPOR TRANSPORT; WIND FIELD;

CLIMATOLOGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; TROPICS;

MOISTURE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO; HEINRICH EVENT; LA NINA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MOISTURE FLUX; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSALINITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; WIND FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77954816410     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.029     Document Type: Article

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