Decoupled warming and monsoon precipitation in East Asia over the last deglaciation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 256-264

  Peterse, Francien ^a   Prins, Maarten A ^b   Beets, Christiaan J ^b   Troelstra, Simon R ^b   Zheng, Hongbo ^c   Gu, Zhaoyan ^d   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) membrane lipid; Deglaciation; East Asian monsoon; Loess; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRANCHED GLYCEROL DIALKYL GLYCEROL TETRAETHER (GDGT) MEMBRANE LIPID; DEGLACIATION; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLYCEROL; ISOTOPES; LIPIDS; OXYGEN; SOILS; SOLAR RADIATION; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FOSSIL RECORD; LAST DEGLACIATION; LOESS; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WARMING;

CHINA;

EID: 78650269455     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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