Paleoceanography of the southern Coral Sea across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

• Main Author: Russon, Thomas Ford
• Other Authors: Elliot, Mary, Tudhope, Sandy, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2011
• Subjects: paleoceanography; Pleistocene; Pacific; sea surface temperature; orbital forcing; carbon cycle; Southern Ocean; Ner
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4876

NER/S/A/2006/14325 A comprehensive theory explaining the relationship between periodic variations in the Earths orbital parameters and the response of the climate system remains elusive. One of the key challenges is that of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), during which the dominant mode of glac...