Tracking regional and global teleconnections recorded by western North American speleothem records

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 149, Issue , 2016, Pages 18-33

  Oster, Jessica L ^a   Kelley, Neil P ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Oxygen isotopes; Paleoclimate; Speleothem; Western North America

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATES; SPELEOTHEM; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; WESTERN NORTH AMERICA;

ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST DEGLACIATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SPELEOTHEM; TELECONNECTION; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84978512530     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.009     Document Type: Review

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