Variability of Southwest Indian summer monsoon precipitation during the Bølling-Ållerød

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 813-816

  Sinha, Ashish ^a   Cannariato, Kevin G ^b   Stott, Lowell D ^b   Li, Hong Chun ^b   You, Chen Feng ^c   Cheng, Hai ^d   Edwards, R Lawrence ^d   Singh, Indra B ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

B lling ller d; Indian monsoon; Oxygen isotopes; Stable isotope; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; SUMMER MONSOON PRECIPITATION;

CAVES; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

BOLLING; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; QUATERNARY; SPELEOTHEM;

EID: 26844572850     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21498.1     Document Type: Article

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