The Holocene Indian monsoon variability over the southern Tibetan Plateau and its teleconnections

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 135-144

  Cai, Yanjun ^a,b   Zhang, Haiwei ^a,c   Cheng, Hai ^b,d   An, Zhisheng ^a   Lawrence Edwards, R ^d   Wang, Xianfeng ^e   Tan, Liangcheng ^a   Liang, Fuyuan ^f   Wang, Jin ^a,c   Kelly, Megan ^d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; Indian summer monsoon; Lapse rate; Oxygen isotope; Speleothem; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENES; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; LAPSE RATE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SPELEOTHEM; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CAVES; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PEATLAND; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; STALAGMITE; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; UPWELLING;

ARABIAN SEA; ARCTIC; CHINA; GREENLAND; HUBEI; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TIANMEN;

EID: 84862246969     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.035     Document Type: Article

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