Holocene winter climate variability in mid-latitude western North America

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ersek, Vasile ^a   Clark, Peter U ^b   Mix, Alan C ^b   Cheng, Hai ^c,d   Lawrence Edwards, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPELEOTHEM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; NORTH AMERICA; PRECIPITATION; SEA; TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84870775764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2222     Document Type: Article

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