Pleistocene water cycle and eastern boundary current processes along the California continental margin

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lyle, Mitchell ^a   Heusser, Linda ^b   Ravelo, Christina ^c   Andreasen, Dyke ^c   Olivarez Lyle, Annette ^a   Diffenbaugh, Noah ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CURRENT; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEGLACIATION; GYRE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE RECORD; MARINE SEDIMENT; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; CALIFORNIA MARGIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; SANTA CRUZ [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149459964     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001836     Document Type: Article

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