Reconstructing 7000 years of North Atlantic hurricane variability using deep-sea sediment cores from the western Great Bahama Bank

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-41

  Toomey, Michael R ^a,b   Curry, William B ^a   Donnelly, Jeffrey P ^a   Van Hengstum, Peter J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; carbonate banks; cyclones; hurricanes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYCLONE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; HURRICANE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREAT BAHAMA BANK;

EID: 84876713021     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20012     Document Type: Article

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