Shrinking lakes in Tibet linked to the weakening Asian monsoon in the past 8.2ka

Quaternary Research (United States)

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 189-198

  Chen, Yiwei ^a   Zong, Yongqiang ^a   Li, Bo ^a,b   Li, Shenghua ^a   Aitchison, Jonathan C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asian monsoon; Lake Zhari Namco; OSL dating; Paleo shorelines

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE HISTORY; EARLY HOLOCENE; NATURAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL DATING; OSL DATING; PALEO-SHORELINES;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; SHRINKAGE;

LAKES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CHRONOLOGY; EVAPORATION; LAKE EVOLUTION; LAKE LEVEL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHORELINE CHANGE;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84883556720     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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