Unexpected weak seasonal climate in the western Mediterranean region during MIS 31, a high-insolation forced interglacial

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 161, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-17

  Oliveira, Dulce ^a,b,c,d   Sánchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda ^a,b   Naughton, Filipa ^c,d   Polanco Martinez J M ^a,b,e   Jimenez Espejo, Francisco J ^f   Grimalt, Joan O ^g   Martrat, Belen ^g   Voelker, Antje H L ^c,d   Trigo, Ricardo ^h   Hodell, David ⁱ   Abrantes, Fátima ^c,d   Desprat, Stéphanie ^a,b  

^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 BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Pleistocene; Iberian margin; Land sea comparison; Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 31; Mediterranean vegetation; Millennial scale climate variability; Obliquity and precession forcing; Pollen analysis; Precession harmonics; Super interglacial

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EARLY PLEISTOCENE; IBERIAN MARGIN; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MEDITERRANEAN VEGETATION; OBLIQUITY AND PRECESSION FORCING; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PRECESSION HARMONICS; SUPER INTERGLACIAL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOMARKER; CLIMATE VARIATION; CYCLICITY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INSOLATION; INTERGLACIAL; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OBLIQUITY; ORBITAL FORCING; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRECESSION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VEGETATION COVER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN MARGIN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 85013218323     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.013     Document Type: Article

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