Past dynamics of the East Asian monsoon: No inverse behaviour between the summer and winter monsoon during the Holocene

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 78, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 170-177

  Steinke, Stephan ^a   Glatz, Cornelia ^a   Mohtadi, Mahyar ^a   Groeneveld, Jeroen ^b   Li, Qianyu ^c   Jian, Zhimin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

^c Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian winter monsoon; Holocene; Last glacial; Mixed layer; Planktonic foraminiferal Mg Ca temperatures; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL; MIXED LAYER; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERAL MG/CA TEMPERATURES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKENONE; CALCIUM; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MAGNESIUM; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN;

FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; PULLENIATINA OBLIQUILOCULATA;

EID: 80052162265     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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