Climate change imprinting on stable isotopic compositions of high-elevation meteoric water cloaks past surface elevations of major orogens

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 595-598

  Poulsen, Christopher J ^a   Jeffery, M Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE EFFECTS; EUROPEAN ALPS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; LAPSE RATE; METEORIC WATERS; NEAR-SURFACE; OROGENS; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOALTIMETRY; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIBETAN PLATEAU; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ARID REGIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALTIMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METEORIC WATER; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE;

ALPS; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79959249601     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32052.1     Document Type: Article

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