Influence of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation on the East Asian winter monsoon

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-49

  Sun, Youbin ^a   Clemens, Steven C ^b   Morrill, Carrie ^c   Lin, Xiaopei ^d   Wang, Xulong ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; GRAIN SIZE; LAST GLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; WESTERLY; WINTER;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; GREENLAND; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84255188504     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1326     Document Type: Article

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