East Asian monsoon variability since the Mid-Holocene recorded in a high-resolution, absolute-dated aragonite speleothem from eastern China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 296-307

  Cosford, Jason ^a   Qing, Hairuo ^a   Eglington, Bruce ^b   Mattey, Dave ^c   Yuan, Daoxiang ^d   Zhang, Meiliang ^d   Cheng, Hai ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asian monsoon; spectral analysis; stalagmite; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CYCLICITY; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EAST ASIAN MONSOONS; EASTERN CHINAS; FIRST-ORDER; HIGH-RESOLUTION; HOLOCENE; HUNAN PROVINCE , CHINAS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONES; REGIONAL RESPONSES; SOLAR FORCING; SPECTRAL ANALYSES; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STALAGMITE;

CARBONATE MINERALS; CAVES; LANDFORMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUNAN;

EID: 54349129052     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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