Tropical Atlantic temperature seasonality at the end of the last interglacial

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Felis, Thomas ^a   Giry, Cyril ^a   Scholz, Denis ^b   Lohmann, Gerrit ^a,c   Pfeiffer, Madlene ^c   Pätzold, Jürgen ^a   Kölling, Martin ^a   Scheffers, Sander R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^d SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; OXYGEN 18; STRONTIUM;

CLIMATE MODELING; ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PERTURBATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; COSMOS; DROUGHT; FLOODING; HURRICANE; INTERGLACIAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUNLIGHT; TROPICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84938683156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7159     Document Type: Article

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