Deglacial abrupt climate change in the Atlantic Warm Pool: A Gulf of Mexico perspective

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Williams, Carlie ^a   Flower, Benjamin P ^a   Hastings, David W ^b   Guilderson, Thomas P ^c   Quinn, Kelly A ^a   Goddard, Ethan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; ICE CORE; LAST DEGLACIATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA; GREENLAND; GULF OF MEXICO;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 78649884297     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001928     Document Type: Article

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