The Eurasian ice sheet reinforces the East Asian summer monsoon during the interglacial 500 000 years ago

Climate of the Past

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 79-90

  Yin, Qiuzhen ^a   Berger, A ^a   Driesschaert, E ^a   Goosse, H ^a   Loutre, M F ^a   Crucifix, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE FORCING; DEEP SEA; GREENHOUSE GAS; ICE SHEET; INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLANETARY WAVE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 44349163976     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-4-79-2008     Document Type: Article

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