Millennial-scale Atlantic/East Pacific sea surface temperature linkages during the last 100,000 years

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 396, Issue , 2014, Pages 134-142

  Dubois, Nathalie ^a,d   Kienast, Markus ^b   Kienast, Stephanie S ^b   Timmermann, Axel ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Eawag ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alkenone; Eastern Pacific; EOF; Heinrich events; Sea surface temperature; Winds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEA ICE; WIND; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ALKENONES; EASTERN PACIFIC; EOF; HEINRICH EVENTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALKENONE; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HEINRICH EVENT; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; WARM POOL; WIND FIELD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UPWELLING; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 84899071414     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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