Interplay between the Westerlies and Asian monsoon recorded in Lake Qinghai sediments since 32 ka

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  An, Zhisheng ^a,b   Colman, Steven M ^c   Zhou, Weijian ^a   Li, Xiaoqiang ^a   Brown, Eric T ^c   Jull, A J Timothy ^d   Cai, Yanjun ^a   Huang, Yongsong ^e   Lu, Xuefeng ^a   Chang, Hong ^a   Song, Yougui ^a   Sun, Youbin ^a   Xu, Hai ^a   Liu, Weiguo ^a   Jin, Zhangdong ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Cheng, Peng ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Ai, Li ^a   Li, Xiangzhong ^a   Liu, Xiuju ^c   Yan, Libin ^a   Shi, Zhengguo ^a   Wang, Xulong ^a   Wu, Feng ^a   Qiang, Xiaoke ^a   Dong, Jibao ^a   Lu, Fengyan ^a   Xu, Xinwen ^a   more..

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84866130315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00619     Document Type: Article

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