Late Quaternary Milankovitch-scale climatic change and variability and its impact on monsoonal Australasia

Marine Geology

Volumn 201, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 81-95

  Kershaw, A P ^a   Van Der Kaars, S ^a   Moss, P T ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian monsoon; Climate forcing; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Environmental change; Late Quaternary; Marine palynology

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

MONSOON ACTIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY;

AUSTRALASIA;

EID: 0141595853     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00210-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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