Westerly moisture transport to the middle of Himalayas revealed from the high deuterium excess

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1026-1030

  Tian, Lide ^a   Yao, Tandong ^a   White, J W C ^b   Yu, Wusheng ^c   Wang, Ninglian ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Deuterium excess; Ice core record; Middle of Himalayas; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748937471     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/04wd0030     Document Type: Article

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