Caribbean coral growth influenced by anthropogenic aerosol emissions

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 362-366

  Kwiatkowski, Lester ^a   Cox, Peter M ^a   Economou, Theo ^a   Halloran, Paul R ^b   Mumby, Peter J ^c   Booth, Ben B B ^b   Carilli, Jessica ^d   Guzman, Hector M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; DECADAL VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; IRRADIANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VOLCANIC AEROSOL;

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

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84877250290     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1780     Document Type: Article

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