High-resolution sea surface reconstructions off Cape Hatteras over the last 10 ka

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cléroux, Caroline ^a,b   Debret, Maxime ^c   Cortijo, Elsa ^a   Duplessy, Jean Claude ^a   Dewilde, Fabien ^a   Reijmer, John ^d   Massei, Nicolas ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c STATION DE RADIOASTRONOMIE DE NANÇAY   (France)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIMESCALE; WATER COLUMN; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE HATTERAS; GULF STREAM; HATTERAS ISLAND; ICELAND; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856862683     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002184     Document Type: Article

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