Alkenone unsaturation in surface sediments from the eastern equatorial pacific: Implications for SST reconstructions

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kienast, M ^a   MacIntyre, G ^a   Dubois, N ^a,c   Higginson, S ^a   Normandeau, C ^a   Chazen, C ^b   Herbert, T D ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; CALIBRATION; COOLING; DATA SET; EL NINO; MARINE SEDIMENT; OPEN OCEAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; POSTGLACIAL; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PERU;

EID: 84858761160     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011PA002254     Document Type: Article

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