East Asian winter monsoon variability over the last glacial cycle: Insights from a latitudinal sea-surface temperature gradient across the South China Sea

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 319-324

  Tian, Jun ^a   Huang, Enqing ^a   Pak, Dorothy K ^b  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asian winter monsoon; Last glacial interglacial cycle; Millennial scale; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DEGLACIATION; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; MAGNESIUM; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONALITY; SPELEOTHEM; YOUNGER DRYAS;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 78449248031     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.04.005     Document Type: Article

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