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Eastern tropical pacific; ENSO; foraminifera; paleoceanography; Paleoclimate
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Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium, Gerald Thomas Rustic
Eastern Tropical Pacific Climate And El Niño Variability During The Past Millennium, Gerald Thomas Rustic
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The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been implicated in large-scale climate shifts of the past millennia, but paleoclimate records from the dynamically vital eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP) spanning the past millennium are sparse. This has limited our understanding of tropical Pacific dynamics, leaving questions regarding the source of ENSO variability unanswered. Here I seek to address some of these questions regarding relationship between ENSO and tropical Pacific mean state, and the relationship between the tropical Pacific and large-scale climate. Mean EEP sea surface temperature (SST) for the past millennium was reconstructed using Mg/Ca ratios in Globigerinoides ruber from …