Sea surface temperature variability in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 700 kyr

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ho, Sze Ling ^a   Mollenhauer, Gesine ^a   Lamy, Frank ^a   Martínez Garcia, Alfredo ^b   Mohtadi, Mahyar ^c   Gersonde, Rainer ^a   Hebbeln, Dierk ^c   Nunez Ricardo, Samuel ^d,e   Rosell Melé, Antoni ^f,g   Tiedemann, Ralf ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAGDALENA   (Colombia)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONE; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84867553696     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002317     Document Type: Article

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