Tales of volcanoes and El-Niño southern oscillations with the oxygen isotope anomaly of sulfate aerosol

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17662-17667

  Shaheen, Robina ^a   Abauanza, Mariana ^a   Jackson, Teresa L ^a   McCabe, Justin ^a,b   Savarino, Joel ^c   Thiemens, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pacific Ridge High School   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SULFATE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; EL NINO; HUMIDITY; HYDROSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; VOLCANO;

CERRO HUDSON; EL-CHICHÓN; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PINATUBO;

AEROSOLS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SNOW; SULFATES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84887068860     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213149110     Document Type: Article

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