Evidence of solar and tropical-ocean forcing of hydroclimate cycles in southeastern Australia for the past 6500 years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  McGowan, Hamish A ^b   Marx, Samuel K ^b   Soderholm, Joshua ^b   Denholm, John ^a  

^a Snowy Hydro Limited   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CYCLE; DUST DEPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALAEOCLIMATE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SOLAR FORCING; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR MAXIMA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL REGIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DUST; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CLIMATE CYCLE; DUST; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN ALPS; SNOWY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77953044162     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042918     Document Type: Article

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