Corals record persistent multidecadal SST variability in the Atlantic Warm Pool since 1775 AD

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Vásquez Bedoya, Luis Fernando ^a   Cohen, Anne L ^b   Oppo, Delia W ^b   Blanchon, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORAL; GROWTH RATE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ANTHOZOA; FORAMINIFERA; SIDERASTREA SIDEREA;

EID: 84867218906     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002313     Document Type: Article

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