Pattern of abrupt climatic fluctuation in the East Asian Monsoon during the Last Glacial: Evidence from Chinese loess records

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-196

  Qing Yu, Guan ^a   Bao Tian, Pan ^a   Na, Li ^a   Qiong, Li ^a   Jundi, Zhang ^a   Hongshan, Gao ^a   Jia, Liu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate fluctuation; Dansgaard Oeschger; East Asian Monsoon; Last Glacial

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DANSGAARD-OESCHGER CYCLE; GRIP; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL; LOESS; MONSOON; WESTERLY;

FAR EAST;

EID: 77951297765     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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