High regional climate sensitivity over continental China constrained by glacial-recent changes in temperature and the hydrological cycle

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 8813-8818

  Eagle, Robert A ^a,b   Risi, Camille ^c,d   Mitchell, Jonathan L ^a,e   Eiler, John M ^b   Seibt, Ulrike ^a,e   Neelin, J David ^e,f   Li, Gaojun ^g   Tripati, Aradhna K ^a,e,f,h  

^a Departments of Earth and Space Sciences   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e Dep't of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences   (United States)

^f Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

^g NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; ISOTOPE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GLACIAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETRY;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASTROPODA; HISTORY, ANCIENT; ICE COVER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETRY; WATER CYCLE;

EID: 84878434361     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213366110     Document Type: Article

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