Modern and glacial tropical snowlines controlled by sea surface temperature and atmospheric mixing

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 205-209

  Tripati, Aradhna K ^a   Sahany, Sandeep ^a   Pittman, Dustin ^a   Eagle, Robert A ^a   Neelin, J David ^a   Mitchell, Jonathan L ^a   Beaufort, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOWLINE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

FORAMINIFERA; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84895425390     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2082     Document Type: Article

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