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Modern and past climate variability in the eastern Pacific warm pool

Creator:

Benway, Heather M.

Abstract:

Westward transport of water vapor across the Panama Isthmus helps to maintain the salinity contrast between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, important in thermohaline circulation and global climate. Relatively low sea-surface salinities and a strong, shallow pycnocline in the eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

eastern Pacific warm pool (EPWP) region near Central America reflect high net precipitation. This
Spatial and temporal variations in sediment accumulation in the central tropical Pacific

Creator:

Murray, David W. (David William), 1956-

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

Variations in Sediment Accumulation in the Central opical Pacific Abstract Approved: -4 Øi' G. Ross }f'eath