Pronounced interannual variability in tropical South Pacific temperatures during Heinrich Stadial 1

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Felis, Thomas ^a   Merkel, Ute ^a   Asami, Ryuji ^b   Deschamps, Pierre ^c   Hathorne, Ed C ^a,g   Kölling, Martin ^a   Bard, Edouard ^c   Cabioch, Guy ^d   Durand, Nicolas ^c   Prange, Matthias ^a   Schulz, Michael ^a   Cahyarini, Sri Yudawati ^e   Pfeiffer, Miriam ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c Paris Sciences et Lettres   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^e INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^f RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; DEGLACIATION; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOSSIL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84864840941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1973     Document Type: Article

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