Coral reconstructions of mid-Holocene ocean-atmosphere variability in the western Pacific warm pool

• Main Author: McGregor, Helen Victoria
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: American Lake; Indian; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/11035

This thesis explores Holocene climate conditions in the western Pacific warm pool (WPWP) using geochemical tracers in fossil corals from the north coast of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The WPWP, with an annual average sea surface temperature (SST) exceeding 28°C, is not only a major heat source driving e...