Lessons learned from oxygen isotopes in modern precipitation applied to interpretation of speleothem records of paleoclimate from eastern Asia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 219-230

  Dayem, Katherine E ^a   Molnar, Peter ^a   Battisti, David S ^b   Roe, Gerard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Monsoon; Oxygen isotope ratios; Paleoclimate; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; GLOBAL NETWORKS; INDIAN MONSOON; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LESSONS LEARNED; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIOS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOCLIMATES; PAST AND PRESENT; RAINY SEASONS; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL PRECIPITATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SHORT DISTANCES; SOURCE REGION; SOUTH CHINA; STATION DATA; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SYNCHRONOUS VARIATION; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TIME VARIATIONS; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL RAINFALL;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CAVES; FREQUENCY MODULATION; OXYGEN; WATER VAPOR;

ISOTOPES;

INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; SPELEOTHEM; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; DONGGE CAVE; GUIZHOU; HULU CAVE; JIANGSU;

EID: 77953024601     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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