The sensitivity of the Australian summer monsoon to climate forcing during the late Quaternary

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Marshall, Andrew G ^a,b   Lynch, A H ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAIN; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; MONSOON; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA LEVEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUMMER; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 53149124056     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008981     Document Type: Article

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