Tropically-driven climate shifts in southwestern Europe during MIS 19, a low eccentricity interglacial

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 448, Issue , 2016, Pages 81-93

  Sanchez Goni M F ^a,b   Rodrigues, T ^c,d   Hodell, D A ^e   Polanco Martinez J M ^a,b,f   Alonso Garcia M ^c,d   Hernandez Almeida I ^g   Desprat, S ^a,b   Ferretti, P ^h  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Low latitude forcing; MIS 19; Precession harmonics; Southwestern Iberian margin; Vegetation; Westerlies

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ORBITS; VEGETATION;

LOW LATITUDES; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; NATURAL BOUNDARY CONDITION; PRECESSION HARMONICS; SOUTHWESTERN IBERIAN MARGIN; WESTERLIES; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

EARTH (PLANET);

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECCENTRICITY; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; LATITUDE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECESSION; VEGETATION; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; IBERIAN MARGIN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84969871531     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.018     Document Type: Article

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