Mid-Holocene palaeoceanography of the northern South China Sea using coupled fossil-modern coral and atmosphere-ocean GCM model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yokoyama, Yusuke ^a,b   Suzuki, Atsushi ^c   Siringan, Fernando ^d   Maeda, Yasuo ^e   Abe Ouchi, Ayako ^a,b   Ohgaito, Rumi ^b   Kawahata, Hodaka ^a   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER;

ALKENONES; ASIAN CONTINENT; AVERAGE VALUES; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; FOSSIL CORALS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEM; SOURCE AREA; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; THERMAL CONTRASTS; XRD;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CORAL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HOLOCENE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOISTURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 78751490093     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044231     Document Type: Article

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