Links between the East Asian monsoon and North Atlantic climate during the 8,200 year event

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 117-120

  Liu, Y H ^a   Henderson, G M ^b   Hu, C Y ^a   Mason, A J ^b   Charnley, N ^b   Johnson, K R ^c   Xie, S C ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COOLING; ICE CORE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; TELECONNECTION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAR EAST; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84873299495     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1708     Document Type: Article

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