A new perspective on the hydroclimate variability in northern South America during the Little Ice Age

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Reuter, Justin ^a   Stott, Lowell ^a   Khider, Deborah ^a   Sinha, Ashish ^b   Cheng, Hai ^c   Edwards, R Lawrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL RAINFALL; BOREAL SPRING; CO-VARIANCE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON SYSTEM; NORTH ATLANTIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEASONAL RAINFALL; SOUTH AMERICA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; LITTLE ICE AGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPELEOTHEM; TELECONNECTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 72049130527     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041051     Document Type: Article

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