El Niño-Southern Oscillation extrema in the Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Koutavas, Athanasios ^a,b,c   Joanides, Stephan ^a,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

^d Environmental Science Program College of Staten Island City University of New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84871640855     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002378     Document Type: Article

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