Variability in modern sea surface temperature, sea ice and terrigenous input in the sub-polar North Pacific and Bering Sea: Reconstruction from biomarker data

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-64

  Méheust, Marie ^a   Fahl, Kirsten ^a   Stein, Ruediger ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKENONES; BERING SEA; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; HIGHER PLANTS; HYDROGEN INDICES; ISOPRENOIDS; LONG CHAIN N-ALKANES; MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; NORTH PACIFIC; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACES; SEA-ICE COVER; SEA-ICE EDGE; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TERRIGENOUS INPUTS;

CALIBRATION; LIPIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLEFINS; PARAFFINS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEA ICE; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALKANE; ALKENE; BIOMARKER; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; ICE COVER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 84874511523     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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