Palaeoclimate reconstructions reveal a strong link between El niño-southern oscillation and tropical pacific mean state

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sadekov, Aleksey Yu ^a,b   Ganeshram, Raja ^a   Pichevin, Laetitia ^a   Berdin, Rose ^c   McClymont, Erin ^d   Elderfield, Henry ^a   Tudhope, Alexander W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Carter's Way Swavesey ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; EL NINO; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE HOLOCENE; NONHUMAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

CARBON DIOXIDE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PLANKTON; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WEATHER;

EID: 84887297157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3692     Document Type: Article

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