Persistent non-solar forcing of Holocene storm dynamics in coastal sedimentary archives

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 892-896

  Sorrel, Philippe ^a,b   Debret, Maxime ^b   Billeaud, Isabelle ^b,c   Jaccard, Samuel L ^d   McManus, Jerry F ^e   Tessier, Bernadette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^c CSTJF   (France)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CORRELATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STORM; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 84870409240     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1619     Document Type: Article

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