Multidecadal climate variability in Brazil's Nordeste during the last 3000 years based on speleothem isotope records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Novello, Valdir F ^a   Cruz, Francisco W ^a   Karmann, Ivo ^a   Burns, Stephen J ^b   Stríkis, Nicols M ^a   Vuille, Mathias ^c   Cheng, Hai ^d,e   Lawrence Edwards, R ^e   Santos, Roberto V ^f   Frigo, Everton ^a   Barreto, Eline A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE ANOMALIES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CROSS-WAVELET ANALYSIS; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; DRY CONDITION; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPE RECORD; LITTLE ICE AGE; NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SUMMER MONSOON;

ISOTOPES;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPELEOTHEM; TROPICAL REGION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84865704406     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053936     Document Type: Article

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