A weak El Niño/Southern Oscillation with delayed seasonal growth around 4,300 years ago

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2013

Authors

McGregor, H. V.
Fischer, Mathew J.
Gagan, Michael
Fink, David
Phipps, Steven J.
Wong, H.
Woodroffe, Colin

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Nature Publishing Group

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Earth's interannual climate variability is dominated by El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Palaeoclimate records indicate a lower ENSO variance during the middle Holocene compared with today; however, model simulations have not reproduced the full magn

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Keywords: annual cycle; atoll; climate forcing; climate modeling; climate variation; coral; decadal variation; El Nino-Southern Oscillation; Holocene; insolation; paleoceanography; paleoclimate; sea surface temperature; seasonality; zonal wind; Christmas Island; Ki

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Nature Geoscience

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2037-12-31