A Stalagmite record of holocene indonesian-australian summer monsoon variability from the australian tropics

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-168

  Denniston, Rhawn F ^a   Wyrwoll, Karl Heinz ^b   Polyak, Victor J ^c   Brown, Josephine R ^d   Asmerom, Yemane ^c   Wanamaker, Alan D ^e   LaPointe, Zachary ^c   Ellerbroek, Rebecca ^a   Barthelmes, Michael ^a   Cleary, Daniel ^a   Cugley, John ^f   Woods, David ^g   Humphreys, William F ^b,h,i  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Kimberley Toad Busters   (Australia)

^g DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^h WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

El Nino Southern Oscillation; Holocene; Indonesian Australian summer monsoon; Intertropical convergence zone; Oxygen isotope; Stalagmite

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALCITE; CLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; RAIN; TROPICS;

AUSTRALIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENES; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STALAGMITE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE FORCING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; STALAGMITE; SUMMER; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BORNEO; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; INDONESIA; KIMBERLEY [BRITISH COLUMBIA]; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84883712190     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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