Permanent El Niño during the Pliocene warm period not supported by coral evidence

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7337, 2011, Pages 209-211

  Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a   Suzuki, Atsushi ^b   Minobe, Shoshiro ^a   Kawashima, Tatsunori ^a   Kameo, Koji ^c   Minoshima, Kayo ^b   Aguilar, Yolanda M ^d   Wani, Ryoji ^e   Kawahata, Hodaka ^f   Sowa, Kohki ^a   Nagai, Takaya ^a   Kase, Tomoki ^g  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Mines and Geosciences Bureau Philippines   (Philippines)

^e YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORAL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; LATITUDE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESOLUTION; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LATITUDE; PHILIPPINES; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENTROPY; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINES; SALINITY; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PHILIPPINES;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 79952425267     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09777     Document Type: Article

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