The behaviour of the Leeuwin Current offshore NW Australia during the last five glacial-interglacial cycles

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 119-132

  Spooner, Michelle I ^a   De Deckker, Patrick ^a   Barrows, Timothy T ^b   Fifield, L Keith ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacial; Interglacial; MIS 11; Planktonic foraminifera; Sea surface temperature; Thermocline depth

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL; INTERGLACIAL; MIS 11; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMOCLINE DEPTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ISOTOPES; LAKES; STREAM FLOW; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

COAST; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; THERMOCLINE; WATER COLUMN;

INDIAN OCEAN; LEEUWIN CURRENT;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 79951512391     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.10.015     Document Type: Article

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