Mismatch between the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions may bias reconstructions

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 859-870

  Telford, R J ^a,b   Li, C ^a,b   Kucera, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DATA SET; HABITAT TYPE; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84881132929     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-859-2013     Document Type: Article

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