A four-year record of UK'37- and TEX86-derived sea surface temperature estimates from sinking particles in the filamentous upwelling region off Cape Blanc, Mauritania

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 97, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-79

  Mollenhauer, Gesine ^a,b   Basse, Andreas ^a,b   Kim, Jung Hyun ^c   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^c   Fischer, Gerhard ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coastal upwelling system; Particle flux; Sinking particles; TEX86; UK'37

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOMARKERS; GLYCEROL; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

COASTAL UPWELLING; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICLE FORMATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SINKING PARTICLES; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS; TEX86;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALKENONE; BIOMARKER; LIPID; OPAL; PARTICLE MOTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRAP; UPWELLING;

CAPE BLANC; MAURITANIA;

EID: 84921033536     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2014.11.015     Document Type: Article

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