A 780-year annually resolved record of Indian Ocean monsoon precipitation from a speleothem from south Oman

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue 20, 2002, Pages ACL-9-1-ACL-9-9

  Burns, Stephen J ^a   Fleitmann, Dominik ^b   Mudelsee, Manfred ^c   Neff, Ulrich ^d   Matter, Albert ^b   Mangini, Augusto ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1699 Global Change: General or miscellaneous; 3344 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology; 3354 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Precipitation (1854); Monsoon; Paleoclimate; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; METEOROLOGY; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 36448930967     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001281     Document Type: Article

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