Evidence for 800years of North Atlantic multi-decadal variability from a Puerto Rican speleothem

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 23-28

  Winter, Amos ^a   Miller, Thomas ^a   Kushnir, Yochanan ^b   Sinha, Ashish ^c   Timmermann, Axel ^d   Jury, Mark R ^a   Gallup, Christina ^e   Cheng, Hai ^f   Edwards, R Lawrence ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic multidecadal oscillation; Climate change; Puerto Rico; Rainfall variability; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; NORTH ATLANTIC; PROXY RECORDS; PUERTO RICO; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SPELEOTHEMS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CALCITE; CLIMATE VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPELEOTHEM;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 79959943438     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.028     Document Type: Article

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