Recent unprecedented warming and oligotrophy of the eastern Mediterranean Sea within the last millennium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 5158-5166

  Sisma Ventura, Guy ^a   Yam, Ruth ^a   Shemesh, Aldo ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

climate; isotopes; Mediterranean; millennium; monsoon; vermetid

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE; MEDITERRANEAN; MILLENNIUM; MONSOON; VERMETID;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DATING METHOD; GASTROPOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORELINE; TRANSITION ZONE; WESTERLY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

DENDROPOMA; GASTROPODA; VERMETIDAE;

EID: 84904271578     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060393     Document Type: Article

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