Persistent El Niño-Southern Oscillation variation during the Pliocene Epoch

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Scroxton, N ^a,b   Bonham, S G ^c   Rickaby, R E M ^a   Lawrence, S H F ^a   Hermoso, M ^a   Haywood, A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HADLEY CELL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PERSISTENCE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLIOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TECTONICS; THERMOCLINE; UNDERCURRENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79957932596     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA002097     Document Type: Article

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