The southwest Indian Monsoon over the last 18000 years

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-225

  Overpeck, Jonathan ^a,b   Anderson, David ^a   Trumbore, Susan ^c   Prell, Warren ^d  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL BOUNDARY; INDIAN MONSOON; MONSOON DYNAMICS; MONSOON INTENSITY; PALAEOCLIMATE DATA; SEDIMENT CORE;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; TIBET;

EID: 0029772158     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00211619     Document Type: Article

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