Sensitivity of Red Sea circulation to sea level and insolation forcing during the last interglacial

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 941-955

  Trommer, G ^a,b   Siccha, M ^a,c   Rohling, E J ^d   Grant, K ^d   Van Der Meer, M T J ^e   Schouten, S ^e   Baranowski, U ^a   Kucera, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOMARKER; CHLOROPHYLL; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUCCESSION;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF ADEN; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 80052328251     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-941-2011     Document Type: Article

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