Millennial reoccurrence of century-scale abrupt events of East Asian monsoon: A possible heat conveyor for the global deglaciation

Paleoceanography

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 725-731

  Wang, Luejiang ^a,b   Sarnthein, Michael ^a   Grootes, Pieter M ^a   Erlenkeuser, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; DEGLACIATION; EPISODIC EVENT; HEAT TRANSFER; MARINE RECORD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

ASIA; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 0033503377     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999PA900028     Document Type: Article

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