Assessing the Paleoceanographic Potential of the Coral Montipora venosa at Fanning Atoll, Central Equatorial Pacific
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As interest in global climate change increases, so does the need for better and more extensive climate proxies. The central equatorial Pacific has been established as the region with the largest ENSO-related sea surface temperature (SST) and precipitation (PPT) anomalies, which are known to impact global interannual climate variability. Of the coral-based paleo-reconstructions of ENSO and lower frequency phenomena, the coral genus Porites has been most commonly utilized. However, due to questions of biological artifacts in corals, in order to more fully understand coral-based reconstruction, different coral genera need to be analyzed.
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