The response of SST to insolation and ice sheet variability from MIS 3 to MIS 11 in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 10366-10374

  Cortina, Aleix ^a   Sierro, Francisco Javier ^b   Flores, José Abel ^b   Martrat, Belen ^a   Grimalt, Joan O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

ice sheet; insolation; millennial scale variability; northwestern Mediterranean; SST

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIERS; ICE; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; LOCATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE WATERS;

ICE SHEET; MARINE OXYGEN ISOTOPES; MILLENNIAL-SCALE VARIABILITY; NORTH-WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEAS; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE SHEET; INSOLATION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84951332843     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065539     Document Type: Article

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