The decline of winter monsoon velocity in the South China Sea through the 20th century: Evidence from the Sr/Ca records in corals

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-85

  Liu, Yi ^a   Peng, Zicheng ^a   Chen, Tegu ^b   Wei, Gangjian ^c   Sun, Weidong ^c   Sun, Ruoyu ^a   He, Jianfeng ^a   Liu, Guijian ^a   Chou, Chen Lin ^d   Zartman, Robert E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^d ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

coral; East Asian monsoon; globe warming; Kuroshio Current; South China Sea; Sr Ca ratio

Indexed keywords

CORAL; GLOBAL WARMING; MONSOON; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HAINAN; KUROSHIO CURRENT; LONGWAN BAY; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 48549085242     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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