Tibet forcing of mid-Pleistocene synchronous enhancement of East Asian winter and summer monsoons revealed by Chinese loess record

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-184

  Han, Wenxia ^a,b   Fang, Xiaomin ^b   Berger, André ^c  

^a QINGHAI INSTITUTE OF SALT LAKES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon evolution; Astronomical tuning; Chinese Loess Plateau; Mid Pleistocene climatic transition; Tibetan Plateau uplift forcing

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; CHINESE LOESS; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; HIGH RESOLUTION; MID-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATIC TRANSITION; QUATERNARY CLIMATE; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SUMMER MONSOON; TIBETAN PLATEAU; WINTER MONSOON;

LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; GRAIN SIZE; LOESS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MONSOON; PALEOSOL; PLEISTOCENE; SUMMER; WINTER;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 84865395139     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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