Dynamical changes in the tropical Pacific warm pool and zonal SST gradient during the Pleistocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7626-7633

  Dyez, Kelsey A ^a,b   Ravelo, A Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

pCO2< inf>; temperature gradients; tropical Pacific SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION; CIRCULATION CHANGES; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PACIFIC WARM POOL; PCO2; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TROPICAL PACIFIC SST;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLEISTOCENE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL REGION; UPWELLING; WARM POOL; ZONAL FLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84912072483     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061639     Document Type: Article

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