Particle-size evidence of barrier estuary regime as a new proxy for ENSO climate variability

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1520-1534

  Clarke, David W ^a   Boyle, John F ^a   Plater, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

barrier estuary; Central Coast California; ENSO; particle size analysis; periodicity; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITION; ESTUARIES; NICKEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STORMS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ACCOMMODATION SPACE; CALIFORNIA; DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ENSO; MULTIVARIATE ENSO INDICES; PERIODICITY; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PATTERN;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ESTUARY; PARTICLE SIZE; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENTATION RATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85012096073     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.4106     Document Type: Article

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