Climate-related response of dust flux to the central equatorial Pacific over the past 150 kyr

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 457, Issue , 2017, Pages 160-172

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

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

abrupt climate change; dust; equatorial Pacific; Intertropical Convergence Zone; stadial events

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; TROPICS;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LAST GLACIAL INCEPTION; PATTERN CHARACTERISTIC; STADIAL EVENTS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DUST; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84995784015     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.042     Document Type: Article

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