Regional climate variability in the western subtropical North Atlantic during the past two millennia

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Saenger, Casey ^a,b   Came, Rosemarie E ^c   Oppo, Delia W ^d   Keigwin, Lloyd D ^d   Cohen, Anne L ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CALCIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONVERGENCE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FORAMINIFERA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MAGNESIUM; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79955431686     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002038     Document Type: Article

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