Plio-Pleistocene high-low latitude climate interplay: A Mediterranean point of view

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 319-320, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-44

  Colleoni, Florence ^a   Masina, Simona ^a,b   Negri, Alessandra ^a,c   Marzocchi, Alice ^a  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

High low latitude interplay; Mediterranean surface water; Plio Pleistocene climate transition; Sapropels; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; DEEPWATER; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; FREQUENCY SIGNALS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL COOLING; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH-LOW; HIGH-LOW-LATITUDE INTERPLAY; LOW LATITUDES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIATIONS; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; SAPROPELS; SUMMER MONSOON; TROPICAL LATITUDES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATERS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTON; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SAPROPEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84856048645     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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