Latin America and the Caribbean

Quaternary Environmental Change in the Tropics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 263-311

  Bush, Mark B ^a   Metcalfe, Sarah E ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absence or marked weakening of ENSO, the early Holocene; Climatic consequences of closure of the Isthmus of Panama; Deglaciation in the neotropics, timing pattern; Forcing of neotropical climates; Latin America and the Caribbean; Latin American tropics, summer rainfall and migration of ITCZ; Long term climate forcings and cycles; Millennial scale oscillations; Periodic weakening of the MOC; Status of the refugial hypothesis of tropical diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888697781     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118336311.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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