A possible impact of cooling over the Tibetan Plateau on the mid-Holocene East Asian monsoon climate

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 543-550

  Jin, Liya ^a   Wang, Huijun ^b   Chen, Fahu ^a   Jiang, Dabang ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian summer monsoon; Mid Holocene; Paleoclimate modeling; Snow and glaciers; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746791486     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0543-y     Document Type: Article

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