Atmospheric soluble dust records from a Tibetan ice core: Possible climate proxies and teleconnection with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Grigholm, B ^a   Mayewski, P A ^a   Kang, S ^b   Zhang, Y ^b   Kaspari, S ^a,c   Sneed, S B ^a   Zhang, Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CALCIUM; CLIMATOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; ICE; IONS; ISOTOPES; NANOFLUIDICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOISOTOPES; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH REANALYSIS; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; CLIMATE PROXIES; CLIMATE VARIABLES; COMMON STRUCTURES; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; DUST LEVELS; DUST LOADING; DUST SOURCES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; ICE CORE; ICE CORE RECORDS; ION SPECIES; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; SOLUBLE IONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PRESSURES; TELECONNECTIONS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIBETANS; TRANSPORT ROUTES; UNIVERSITY OF MAINE; WIND VELOCITIES;

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DUST; ICE CORE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIONUCLIDE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PRESSURE; TELECONNECTION; TIME SERIES;

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

EID: 72049103137     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008jd011242     Document Type: Article

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