Equatorial refuge amid tropical warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 530-534

  Karnauskas, Kristopher B ^a   Cohen, Anne L ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CORAL REEF; EL NINO; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; MARINE PARK; REFUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84863004127     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1499     Document Type: Article

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