A review of climatic controls on δ18O in precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau: Observations and simulations

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 525-548

  Yao, Tandong ^a,b   Masson Delmotte, Valerie ^c   Gao, Jing ^a   Yu, Wusheng ^a   Yang, Xiaoxin ^a   Risi, Camille ^d   Sturm, Christophe ^e   Werner, Martin ^f   Zhao, Huabiao ^a   He, You ^a   Ren, Wei ^a   Tian, Lide ^a,b   Shi, Chunming ^c   Hou, Shugui ^b,g  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

AGCMs simulations; observations; precipitation stable isotopes; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

AGCMS SIMULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; ISOTOPES; MOISTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONVERGENCE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MONSOON; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION QUALITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84886739292     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rog.20023     Document Type: Article

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