Reconstructing Tropical Pacific Climate Variability from Coral Archives

• Main Author: Jimenez, Gloria
• Other Authors: Cole, Julia E., Anchukaitis, Kevin J., Russell, Joellen, Tierney, Jessica
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Arizona. 2018
• Subjects: climate change; climate reconstruction; corals; El Niño-Southern Oscillation; Galapagos Islands; Pacific Ocean; Darwin Island; Galapagos; Pacific
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/631480

The tropical Pacific Ocean is a critical component of the climate system, and its mean state and variability are linked to effects across the globe. Our understanding of the area is limited by the scarcity of direct observations of important climatic variables prior to the mid-twentieth century, wit...