The leading mode of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation variability during the last millennium

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Sinha, Ashish ^a   Berkelhammer, Max ^b   Stott, Lowell ^c   Mudelsee, Manfred ^d,e   Cheng, Hai ^f,g   Biswas, Jayant ^h  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Climate Risk Analysis ^*  (Germany)

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

^f XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^h National Cave Research and Protection Organization   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ARABIAN SEA; EXTERNAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON WINDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; PROXY RECORDS; TIME-SCALES; UPWELLING INTENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPELEOTHEM; TIMESCALE; WIND BREAK;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 80051493683     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047713     Document Type: Article

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