Solar forcing of Florida Straits surface salinity during the early Holocene

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Schmidt, Matthew W ^a   Weinlein, William A ^a   Marcantonio, Franco ^a   Lynch Stieglitz, Jean ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO; EVAPORATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HYDROGRAPHY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEDIMENT CORE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRAIT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FLORIDA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); STRAITS OF FLORIDA;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER;

EID: 84864443495     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002284     Document Type: Article

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