Distinct responses of East Asian summer and winter monsoons to astronomical forcing

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1363-1370

  Shi, Z G ^a   Liu, X D ^a   Sun, Y B ^a   An, Z S ^a   Liu, Z ^b   Kutzbach, J ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; MONSOON; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TIME SERIES; WINTER;

CHINA; HUBEI; HULU CAVE; JIANGSU; LOESS PLATEAU; SANBAO CAVE;

EID: 83655191132     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1363-2011     Document Type: Article

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