Climate of the last millennium at the southern pole of the North Atlantic Oscillation: An inner-shelf sediment record of flooding and upwelling

Climate Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 261-280

  Abrantes, F ^a,b   Rodrigues, T ^a,b   Montanari, B ^a   Santos, C ^a,b   Witt, L ^c   Lopes, C ^a,b   Voelker, A H L ^a,b  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c Pac Fish Environmental Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

AMO; Climate; Flooding; Gulf stream; Last millennium; NAO; Portugal; Precipitation; Sediment record; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

AMO; CLIMATE; GULF STREAM; LAST MILLENNIUM; NAO; PORTUGAL; UPWELLING;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; OCEAN CURRENTS; POLES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; COOLING; DECADAL VARIATION; FLOODING; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; UPWELLING;

PORTO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 80052457717     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01010     Document Type: Article

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