Abrupt variations in South American monsoon rainfall during the Holocene based on a speleothem record from central-eastern Brazil

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1075-1078

  Stríkis, Nicolás M ^a   Cruz, Francisco W ^a   Cheng, Hai ^b,c   Karmann, Ivo ^a   Edwards, R Lawrence ^c   Vuille, Mathias ^d   Wang, Xianfeng ^e   de Paula, Marcos S ^a   Novello, Valdir F ^a   Auler, Augusto S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f Instituto do Carste   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-EQUATORIAL FLOW; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENES; INDIAN MONSOON; LATE HOLOCENE; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; MONSOON RAINFALL; NORTH ATLANTIC; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; PRECIPITATION VARIATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOUTH AMERICA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; OVERTURN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPELEOTHEM;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84863140720     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32098.1     Document Type: Article

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