Atmospheric dust from a shallow ice core from Tanggula: Implications for drought in the central Tibetan Plateau over the past 155 years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-66

  Wu, Guangjian ^a,b   Zhang, Chenglong ^a   Xu, Baiqing ^a   Mao, Rui ^c   Joswiak, Daniel ^a   Wang, Ninglian ^b   Yao, Tandong ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Dust; Ice core; Tanggula; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; CENTRAL TIBETAN PLATEAU; CLIMATE WARMING; COLD CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; DUST FLUX; DUST STORM; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES; GRAIN SIZE; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW OXYGEN; LOW PRESSURES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; POTENTIAL SOURCE REGIONS; STRONG WINDS; TANGGULA; TARIM BASIN; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES;

DROUGHT; DUST; GLOBAL WARMING; ISOTOPES; STORMS;

ICE;

DUST; GLOBAL WARMING; GRAIN SIZE; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOW PRESSURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TIMESCALE; WESTERLY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DROUGHT; DUST STORM; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; METEOROLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TANGGULA MOUNTAINS; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR; XIZANG;

EID: 84870200717     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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