Late Holocene changes in precipitation in northwest Tasmania and their potential links to shifts in the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 92-93, Issue , 2012, Pages 82-91

  Saunders, K M ^a,b   Kamenik, C ^a   Hodgson, D A ^c   Hunziker, S ^a   Siffert, L ^a   Fischer, D ^a   Fujak, M ^d   Gibson, J A E ^b   Grosjean, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Lake sediments; Reflectance spectroscopy; Westerly winds

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; AUSTRALIA; CALIBRATION MODEL; DRY CONDITION; DRY PERIODS; INSTRUMENTAL DATA; INSTRUMENTAL PRECIPITATION; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATES; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; PRECIPITATION RECONSTRUCTION; REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SEDIMENT CORE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VARIABLE CONDITIONS; VISIBLE SPECTRA; WESTERLY WINDS; WET CONDITIONS;

CALIBRATION; DROUGHT; LAKES; REFLECTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPECTROSCOPY;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84861625947     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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