A global context for megadroughts in monsoon Asia during the past millennium

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 47-62

  Sinha, Ashish ^a   Stott, Lowell ^b   Berkelhammer, Max ^b   Cheng, Hai ^c,d   Edwards, R Lawrence ^d   Buckley, Brendan ^e   Aldenderfer, Mark ^f   Mudelsee, Manfred ^g,h  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Climate Risk Analysis   (Germany)

^h ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

15TH CENTURY; CENTRAL INDIA; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CONVERGENCE ZONES; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EXTRATROPICAL LATITUDES; GLOBAL CONTEXT; INDIAN OCEAN; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEGADROUGHTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OSCILLATORY MODE; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; PROXY RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SOCIETAL CHANGES; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SYNOPTIC SCALE CIRCULATION; TREE RINGS; VIET NAM;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; DROUGHT; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TREE RING;

CHINA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); VIET NAM;

EID: 78650523717     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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