Evidence for decreasing South Asian summer monsoon in the past 160 years from varved sediment in Lake Xinluhai, Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Chu, Guoqiang ^a   Sun, Qing ^b   Yang, Ke ^c   Li, Aiguo ^c   Yu, Xiaohan ^c   Xu, Tao ^b   Yan, Fen ^c   Wang, Hua ^c   Liu, Meimei ^b   Wang, Xiaohua ^a   Xie, Manman ^a   Lin, Yuan ^b   Liu, Qiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR GEOANALYSIS   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CESIUM; LAKES; LEAD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CLAY LAYERS; DYNAMIC MECHANISM; LIGHT-COLORED; MONSOON RAINFALL; PROXY RECORDS; RISING TEMPERATURES; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SOUTH ASIA; SPATIAL RAINFALL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

RAIN;

ACCUMULATION; CESIUM ISOTOPE; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LEAD ISOTOPE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SILT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARVE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79551651975     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014454     Document Type: Article

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