A Fiji multi-coral δ18O composite approach to obtaining a more accurate reconstruction of the last two-centuries of the ocean-climate variability in the South Pacific Convergence Zone region

Paleoceanography

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1196-1213

  Dassié, Emilie P ^a   Linsley, Braddock K ^a   Corrège, Thierry ^b,c   Wu, Henry C ^d   Lemley, Gavin M ^e   Howe, Steve ^f   Cabioch, Guy ^g  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

coral composite; coral oxygen isotope; interannual, decadal, and interdecadal variability; South Pacific Convergence Zone

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CORAL; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

FIJI;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 85027939672     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: 19449186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002591     Document Type: Article

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