The effect of sea level on glacial Indo-Pacific climate

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 485-491

  Dinezio, Pedro N ^a   Tierney, Jessica E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OCEANIC CONVECTION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; TROPICAL REGION; WALKER CIRCULATION; WARM POOL;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SUNDA SHELF;

EID: 84878715077     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1823     Document Type: Article

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