Deglaciation in the tropical Indian Ocean driven by interplay between the regional monsoon and global teleconnections

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 375, Issue , 2013, Pages 166-175

  Saraswat, Rajeev ^a   Lea, David W ^b   Nigam, Rajiv ^a   Mackensen, Andreas ^c   Naik, Dinesh K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ba Ca; Deglaciation; Indian; Mg Ca; Monsoon; Tropical

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; DEGLACIATIONS; GLACIAL TERMINATIONS; INDIAN; MONSOON; SOUTHEASTERN ARABIAN SEAS; TROPICAL; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; HEINRICH EVENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARABIAN SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL); MALABAR COAST;

EID: 84881544048     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.05.022     Document Type: Article

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