A review of the South American monsoon history as recorded in stable isotopic proxies over the past two millennia

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1309-1321

  Vuille, M ^a   Burns, S J ^b   Taylor, B L ^b,c   Cruz, F W ^d   Bird, B W ^e   Abbott, M B ^f   Kanner, L C ^b,g   Cheng, H ^h,i   Novello, V F ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Radioactive Waste Management Associates   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; LITERATURE REVIEW; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANDES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BRAZIL;

EID: 84865743257     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1309-2012     Document Type: Review

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