Contrasting multiproxy reconstructions of surface ocean hydrography in the Agulhas Corridor and implications for the Agulhas Leakage during the last 345,000 years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Martnez Mndez, Gema ^a,b   Zahn, Rainer ^a,c,d   Hall, Ian R ^e   Peeters, Frank J C ^f   Pena, Leopoldo D ^g   Cacho, Isabel ^h   Negre, Csar ^a,i  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

ⁱ Centre d'Innovació i Formació Ocupacional Santa Coloma Departament de Treball Generalitat de Catalunya   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADVECTION; ALKENONE; BIOMARKER; CALCIUM; CLIMATE CYCLE; HYDROGRAPHY; LEAKAGE; MAGNESIUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SALT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SEAWATER; WARMING;

AGULHAS BANK; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 78650462950     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009PA001879     Document Type: Article

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