Sensitivity of East Asian climate to the progressive uplift and expansion of the Tibetan Plateau under the mid-Pliocene boundary conditions

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 709-722

  Jiang, Dabang ^a,d   Ding, Zhongli ^b   Drange, Helge ^c   Gao, Yongqi ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

East Asian climate; Mid Pliocene; Model; Tibetan Plateau; Uplift

Indexed keywords

EID: 60049092940     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0709-x     Document Type: Article

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