Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6835, 2001, Pages 290-293

  Neff, U ^a   Burns, S J ^b,d   Mangini, A ^a   Mudelsee, M ^c   Fleitmann, D ^b   Matter, A ^b  

^a HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; RAIN; SOLAR RADIATION;

SOLAR FLUX;

CLIMATOLOGY;

RAIN;

HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; KARST; MONSOON; OXYGEN; PALEOCLIMATE; STALAGMITE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; OMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

OMAN;

EID: 0035902012     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35077048     Document Type: Article

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