Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5670, 2004, Pages 575-578

  Yuan, Daoxian ^a   Cheng, Hai ^b   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Dykoski, Carolyn A ^b   Kelly, Megan J ^b   Zhang, Meiliang ^a   Qing, Jiaming ^a   Lin, Yushi ^a   Wang, Yongjin ^c   Wu, Jiangyin ^c   Dorale, Jeffery A ^d   An, Zhisheng ^e   Cai, Yanjun ^e  

^a Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THORIUM;

ASIAN MONSOON; INTERGLACIAL CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

OXYGEN; THORIUM 230;

INSOLATION; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE; IONIZATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 11144355914     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1091220     Document Type: Article

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