Solar forcing of North Atlantic surface temperature and salinity over the past millennium

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 275-278

  Moffa Sánchez, Paola ^a   Born, Andreas ^b   Hall, Ian R ^a   Thornalley, David J R ^a,c   Barker, Stephen ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOSALINITY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT CORE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ICELAND;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84897145807     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2094     Document Type: Article

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