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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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- Thermal response of the western tropical Atlantic to slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation S. Crivellari et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.006
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- Salinity and stable oxygen isotope relationship in the Southwestern Atlantic: constraints to paleoclimate reconstructions A. BELEM et al. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201920180226
- Last deglacial abrupt climate changes caused by meltwater pulses in the Labrador Sea D. You et al. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5693-2017
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- Spatial and temporal dynamics of water isotopes in the riverine‐marine mixing zone along the German Baltic Sea coast B. Aichner et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14686
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- Impact of selective degradation on molecular isotope compositions in oxic and anoxic marine sediments C. Häggi et al. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104703
- Alkenones in oceanic odontocetes as a potential proxy of environmental water temperature D. Rita et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107240
- Lipids δ2H values as a proxy for Antarctic ice-sheet meltwater discharge X. Chen et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2026.04.047
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