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Research article
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10 Dec 2015
Research article |
| 10 Dec 2015
Testing the D / H ratio of alkenones and palmitic acid as salinity proxies in the Amazon Plume
C. Häggi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
C. M. Chiessi
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
E. Schefuß
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Constraining the application of hydrogen isotopic composition of alkenones as a salinity proxy using marine surface sediments G. Weiss et al. 10.1016/j.gca.2019.01.038
- Palmitic Acid Is Not a Proper Salinity Proxy in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea but Reflects the Variability in Organic Matter Sources Modulated by Sea Ice Coverage E. Allan et al. 10.1029/2022GC010837
- Increased Amazon freshwater discharge during late Heinrich Stadial 1 S. Crivellari et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.005
- Thermal response of the western tropical Atlantic to slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation S. Crivellari et al. 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.006
- Geochemistry of the Black Sea during the last 15 kyr: A protracted evolution of its hydrography and ecology D. Piper 10.1002/2016PA002949
- Modern and late Pleistocene particulate organic carbon transport by the Amazon River: Insights from long-chain alkyl diols C. Häggi et al. 10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.018
- Salinity and stable oxygen isotope relationship in the Southwestern Atlantic: constraints to paleoclimate reconstructions A. BELEM et al. 10.1590/0001-3765201920180226
- Last deglacial abrupt climate changes caused by meltwater pulses in the Labrador Sea D. You et al. 10.1038/s43247-023-00743-3
- Effects of alkalinity and salinity at low and high light intensity on hydrogen isotope fractionation of long-chain alkenones produced by Emiliania huxleyi G. Weiss et al. 10.5194/bg-14-5693-2017
- Alkenone Uk’37 index differs between thermally separated populations of fin whales and krill D. Rita et al. 10.3354/meps14467
- Alkenone δ2H values – a viable seawater isotope proxy? New core-top δ2HC37:3 and δ2HC37:2 data suggest inter-alkenone and alkenone-water hydrogen isotope fractionation are independent of temperature and salinity B. Mitsunaga et al. 10.1016/j.gca.2022.10.024
- Spatial and temporal dynamics of water isotopes in the riverine‐marine mixing zone along the German Baltic Sea coast B. Aichner et al. 10.1002/hyp.14686
- Glacial–interglacial seawater isotope change near the Chilean Margin as reflected by δ2H values of C37 alkenones K. Hättig et al. 10.5194/cp-19-1919-2023
- Different precipitation patterns across tropical South America during Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger stadials Y. Zhang et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.10.012
- Impact of selective degradation on molecular isotope compositions in oxic and anoxic marine sediments C. Häggi et al. 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104192
- Sea surface water isotope changes recorded by alkenone δ2H from the northern South China Sea over the last 260 kyrs J. He et al. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104703
- Alkenones in oceanic odontocetes as a potential proxy of environmental water temperature D. Rita et al. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107240
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