Late Holocene Asian summer monsoon dynamics from small but complex networks of paleoclimate data

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-19

  Rehfeld, Kira ^a   Marwan, Norbert ^a   Breitenbach, Sebastian F M ^b   Kurths, Jürgen ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asian summer monsoon; Complex networks; Irregular sampling; Little ice age; Medieval warm period

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84879499608     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1448-3     Document Type: Article

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