El Nio in the Eocene greenhouse recorded by fossil bivalves and wood from Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Ivany, Linda C ^a   Brey, Thomas ^b   Huber, Matthew ^c   Buick, Devin P ^d   Schöne, Bernd R ^e  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; GREENHOUSES;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; AVERAGE TEMPERATURE; COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ENSO SIGNAL; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; GROWTH INCREMENTS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PERSISTENT CONDITIONS; QUASI-PERIODIC VARIATIONS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TELECONNECTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIVALVE; EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WOOD;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); WEST ANTARCTICA;

BIVALVIA; MYA;

EID: 80052235370     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048635     Document Type: Article

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