Evidences linking ENSO and coral growth in the Southwestern-South Atlantic

• Main Authors: Evangelista, H., Godiva, D., /Sifeddine, Abdelfettah, Leao, Z.M.A.N., Rigozo, N. R., Segal, B., Ambrizzi, T., Kampel, M., Kikuchi, R. K. P., /Le Cornec, Florence
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: abrolhos coral reefs; ENSO; polar fronts; coral sclerochronology; climate change; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010040832

Physical and biological changes in the marine environment, induced by oceanic-atmospheric processes, can be imprinted in massive coral skeletons. Herein, we present an evidence of potential El Nino impacts at the Southwestern South Atlantic Ocean (SWSA) inferred from the sclerochronology of the reef...