The Global Paleomonsoon as seen through speleothem records from Asia and the Americas

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1045-1062

  Cheng, Hai ^a,b   Sinha, Ashish ^c   Wang, Xianfeng ^d   Cruz, Francisco W ^e   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

18O record; Asian Monsoon; Global Paleomonsoon; South American Monsoon; Speleothem

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; LAND BREEZE; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA BREEZE; SPELEOTHEM;

ASIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84865591432     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1363-7     Document Type: Article

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