Precipitation at Lake Qinghai, NE Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and its relation to Asian summer monsoons on decadal/interdecadal scales during the past 500 years

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 541-549

  Xu, H ^a   Hou, Z H ^a   Ai, L ^a   Tan, L C ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

EASM; ENSO; ISM; Lake Qinghai; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ORGANIC MATTER; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STALAGMITE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE;

EID: 34548855031     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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