Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the holocene and their links to the North Alantic Ocean

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 354-357

  Gupta, Anil K ^a   Anderson, David M ^b   Overpeck, Jonathan T ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE; SEDIMENTS;

HOLOCENE EPOCH;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CARBON 14; ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

(NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037461724     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01340     Document Type: Article

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