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Open AccessSolar forced transient evolution of Pacific upper water thermal structure during the Holocene in an earth system model of intermediate complexity
Forced by transient solar activities since 7 ka, the thermal structures of the Pacific upper water at boreal winter are featured by an enhanced response of 3-dimensional Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) in an ...
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Open AccessA palynological and palaeoclimatological record from the southern Philippines since the Last Glacial Maximum
A palynological analysis of a marine sediment core in the southern Philippines, provides a detailed regional vegetation and climate history for the West Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) since the Last Glacial Maximum ...
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Open AccessEarly Pleistocene formation of the asymmetric east-west pattern of upper water structure in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
Surface- and subsurface-dwelling planktonic foraminifera from the upper 43 m of Hole A at the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 807, which was recovered from the western Pacific warm pool during ODP Leg 130, w...
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Pulleniatina Minimum Event during the last deglaciation in the southern South China Sea
The planktonic foraminiferal faunal census of core MD 05-2894 (7°2.25′N, 111°33.11′E, water depth 1982 m), retrieved from the southern South China Sea (SCS) during the “Marco Polo” cruise in 2005, was performe...
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Benthic foraminiferal fauna turnover at 2.1 Ma in the northern South China Sea
Quantitative analysis of benthic foraminifera from ODP Site 1146 in the northern South China Sea (SCS) shows that abundance of Bulimina alazanensis, sometimes up to about 90%, decreased gradually since 3.2 Ma, es...
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Modeling the impact of Australian Plate drift on Southern Hemisphere climate and environment
Using a global atmosphere-ocean coupled model with the present-day and 14 MaB.P. oceanic topography respectively, two experiments are implemented to investigate the effect of different locations of Australian ...
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Carbon isotopic record of foraminifers in surface sediments from the South China Sea and its significance
The study is based on stable carbon isotopic measurements of 112 foraminiferal samples from surface sediments at 40 sites in the South China Sea (SCS). δ13C of foraminifers and Δδ13C between planktonic and benthi...
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Thirty million year deep sea records in the South China Sea
In the spring of 1999 the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 184 Shipboard Party cored 17 holes at 6 deep water sites in the northern and southern parts of the South China Sea (SCS). Chinese scientists actively ...
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Evolution of the South China Sea and monsoon history revealed in deep-sea records
As the third summary report of ODP Leg 184 to the South China Sea (SCS), this paper discusses the evolution of the East Asian monsoon and the SCS basin. A multi-proxy approach, involving geochemistry, micropal...
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Paleoproductivity records for the past 30 ka in the southern Nansha area, the South China Sea
This note presents productivity variations for the past 30 ka in the southern Nansha area, the South China Sea, from the gravity core 17962 (7°11′N, 112° 5′E, core length: 8 m, water depth: 1 968 m). Estimated...