Different patterns of changes in the asian summer and winter monsoons on the eastern tibetan plateau during the holocene

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1031-1036

  Yu, Xuefeng ^a,b   Zhou, Weijian ^a,b   Liu, Zhao ^a,c   Kang, Zhihai ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Xi'an AMS Center   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Asian winter and summer monsoons; climatic pattern; Holocene; mid Holocene transition; peat; solar insolation

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80053183919     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400460     Document Type: Article

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