Late Miocene upward and outward growth of eastern Tibet and decreasing monsoon rainfall over the northwestern Indian subcontinent since ∼10 Ma

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Molnar, Peter ^a,b   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; SUBSIDENCE;

ASIAN MONSOON; HEAT SOURCES; LATE MIOCENE; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MONSOON RAINFALL; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

RAIN;

ARID REGION; HEATING; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TERRAIN;

CHINA; INDIA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84862075156     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051305     Document Type: Article

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