Contribution of oceanic and vegetation feedbacks to Holocene climate change in monsoonal Asia

Climate of the Past

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-218

  Dallmeyer, A ^a   Claussen, M ^a,b   Otto, J ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c International Max Planck Research School   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA;

EID: 84860390543     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-195-2010     Document Type: Article

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