Interdcadal climate variability in the Coral Sea since 1708 A.D.

Date

2007

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Calvo, Eva
Marshall, John
Pelejero, Carles
McCulloch, Malcolm
Gagan, Michael
Lough, Janice

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Elsevier

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Low resolution (5-year) Sr/Ca and δ18O samples, extending back to 1708 A.D., were analysed from a Porites coral core collected from Flinders Reef, an offshore reef on the Queensland Plateau in the western Coral Sea (17.5° S, 148.3° E). Using the Sr/Ca

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Keywords: calcium; climate effect; climate variation; coral record; decadal variation; eighteenth century; oxygen isotope; paleoclimate; salinity; sea surface temperature; strontium; Coral Sea; Flinders Reefs; Pacific Ocean; Queensland Plateau; Anthozoa; Porites Coral proxies; Coral Sea; Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation; Interdecadal variability; Salinity; South Pacific

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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