South China Sea hydrological changes and Pacific Walker Circulation variations over the last millennium

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yan, Hong ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Oppo, Delia W ^b   Wang, Yuhong ^c   Liu, Zhonghui ^d   Xie, Zhouqing ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Cheng, Wenhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAIN; HYDROLOGY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OSCILLATION; PACIFIC WALKER CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION; SEA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SYNTHESIS; TROPIC CLIMATE; WARMING;

BOS; POMATIOPSIS CALIFORNICA;

EID: 79955525593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1297     Document Type: Article

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