Shoaling of the western equatorial Pacific thermocline during the last glacial maximum inferred from multispecies temperature reconstruction of planktonic foraminifera

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 346-347, Issue , 2012, Pages 120-129

  Sagawa, Takuya ^a   Yokoyama, Yusuke ^b   Ikehara, Minoru ^c   Kuwae, Michinobu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Last glacial maximum; Mg Ca; Paleotemperature; Thermocline; Western Pacific warm pool

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CALCIFICATION; CALCIUM; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORATION; HABITAT QUALITY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAGNESIUM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84863470162     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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