Progress in the reconstruction of Quaternary climate dynamics in the Northwest Pacific: A new modern analogue reference dataset and its application to the 430-kyr pollen record from Lake Biwa

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 64-79

  Tarasov, Pavel E ^a   Nakagawa, Takeshi ^b   Demske, Dieter ^a   Österle, Hermann ^c   Igarashi, Yaeko ^d   Kitagawa, Junko ^e   Mokhova, Lyudmila ^f   Bazarova, Valentina ^f   Okuda, Masaaki ^g   Gotanda, Katsuya ^h   Miyoshi, Norio ⁱ   Fujiki, Toshiyuki ^j   Takemura, Keiji ^k   Yonenobu, Hitoshi ^l   Fleck, Andreas ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Institute for Paleoenvironment of Northern Regions   (Japan)

^e National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^f PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^g NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^h CHIBA UNIVERSITY OF COMMERCE   (Japan)

ⁱ OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^j NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^l NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Japan; Marine isotope stages (MIS) 1 11; Modern analogue technique; Pollen record; Quantitative climate reconstruction; Russian Far East

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; WINTER;

BIWA LAKE; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHIGA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 80051796121     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.06.002     Document Type: Review

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