High-resolution stalagmite reconstructions of Australian-Indonesian monsoon rainfall variability during Heinrich stadial 3 and Greenland interstadial 4

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 133-142

  Lewis, Sophie C ^a   Gagan, Michael K ^a   Ayliffe, Linda K ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^b   Hantoro, Wahyoe S ^c   Treble, Pauline C ^a,d   Hellstrom, John C ^e   LeGrande, Allegra N ^f   Kelley, Maxwell ^f   Schmidt, Gavin A ^f   Suwargadi, Bambang W ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Heinrich stadial 3; Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ); Isotopes; Monsoon; Speleothem; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC IMPACT; DRY CONDITION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GREENLAND; HEINRICH STADIAL 3; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ANALYSIS; INDONESIA; INTERSTADIALS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ); MONSOON; MONSOON RAINFALL; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALAEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUMMER MONSOON; TELECONNECTIONS;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CAVES; ISOTOPES; NASA; RAIN; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; HEINRICH EVENT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; TELECONNECTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARCTIC; AUSTRALIA; GREENLAND;

EID: 79951814226     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.048     Document Type: Article

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