Sub-millennial variability of Asian monsoon intensity during the early MIS 3 and its analogue to the ice age terminations

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1107-1115

  Liu, Dianbing ^a   Wang, Yongjin ^a   Cheng, Hai ^a,b   Lawrence Edwards, R ^b   Kong, Xinggong ^a   Wang, Xianfeng ^b   Hardt, Ben ^b   Wu, Jiangying ^a   Chen, Shitao ^a   Jiang, Xiuyang ^a   He, Yaoqi ^c   Dong, Jinguo ^a   Zhao, Kan ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; BIPOLAR SEESAW; CLIMATE EVENT; CLIMATE TRANSITION; GLOBAL ICE VOLUME; GREENLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; ICE AGE; INTERSTADIALS; ISOTOPE RECORD; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SUMMER MONSOON; TIGHT COUPLING; TIME-SCALES; YOUNGER DRYAS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CARBONATE MINERALS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CALCITE; CLIMATE VARIATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERSTADIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; METHANE; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; STALAGMITE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD;

ARCTIC; CHINA; GREENLAND; GUIZHOU; WULU CAVE;

EID: 77950630230     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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