Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene changes in the North Atlantic Current and suborbital-scale sea-surface temperature variability

Paleoceanography

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 274-282

  Friedrich, Oliver ^a,b,c   Wilson, Paul A ^a   Bolton, Clara T ^a,d   Beer, Christopher J ^a   Schiebel, Ralf ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

North Atlantic current; planktic foraminifera; Pliocene

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GLACIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84878330201     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/palo.20029     Document Type: Article

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