Re-examining Southern Hemisphere westerly wind behavior: Insights from a late Holocene precipitation reconstruction using New Zealand fjord sediments

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 3124-3138

  Knudson, Karla P ^a   Hendy, Ingrid L ^a   Neil, Helen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Fjords; Holocene; New Zealand; Patagonia; Precipitation; Southern Annular Mode; Terrestrial organic carbon; Westerly winds

Indexed keywords

FJORDS; HOLOCENES; NEW ZEALAND; PATAGONIA; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REPAIR; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; ORGANIC CARBON; OROGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND DIRECTION;

ALPS; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); PATAGONIA; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 80052925219     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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