Catchment instability and Asian summer monsoon variability during the early Holocene in southwestern China

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 224-235

  Cook, Charlotte G ^a   Jones, Richard T ^b   Turney, Chris S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; FOREST COVER; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

BOREAS;

EID: 84871607302     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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