Atmospheric dust variability from Arabia and China over the last 500,000 years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 25-26, 2011, Pages 3537-3541

  Roberts, Andrew P ^a   Rohling, Eelco J ^a   Grant, Katharine M ^a   Larrasoaña, Juan C ^a,b   Liu, Qingsong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aeolian dust; Climate; Glacial; Interglacial; Radiative perturbation

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DUSTS; CLIMATE; GLACIAL; INTERGLACIAL; RADIATIVE PERTURBATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

DUST;

AEROSOL; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; DUST; EMISSION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; MINERAL; RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; LOESS PLATEAU; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 81155137903     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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