Sea surface temperature variability in the subpolar Atlantic over the last two millennia

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Sicre, M A ^a   Hall, I R ^b   Mignot, J ^a   Khodri, M ^a   Ezat, U ^a   Truong, M X ^a   Eiriksson J ^c   Knudsen, K L ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DATA SET; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ICELAND;

EID: 79961192940     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002169     Document Type: Article

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