Cuban stalagmite suggests relationship between Caribbean precipitation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation during the past 1.3 ka

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1405-1412

  Fensterer, Claudia ^a   Scholz, Denis ^b,c   Hoffmann, Dirk ^c,d   Spötl, Christoph ^e   Pajón, Jesús M ^f   Mangini, Augusto ^a  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^f Museo Nacional de Historia Natural   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; Caribbean; climate variability; late Holocene; stable isotopes; stalagmites

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; TELECONNECTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA; CUBA;

EID: 84870040835     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612449759     Document Type: Article

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