Large deglacial shifts of the Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jacobel, A W ^a,b   McManus, J F ^a,b   Anderson, R F ^a,b   Winckler, G ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; HEINRICH EVENT; INTERSTADIAL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE;

DEGLACIATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84955448998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10449     Document Type: Article

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