Salinity and Temperature in the Caribbean and North Atlantic Gyre: Millennial and Glacial Cycle Variability

University Of California-Davis, Davis CA

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Abstract

This proposal is funded to reconstruct past sea surface temperatures and salinities in the sub-tropical Atlantic to determine if tropical forcing influenced climate oscillations associated with millennial scale changes. d18O and Mg/Ca analyses of planktic foraminifera will be used to provide a robust estimate of these parameters at millennium to orbital time scales.