Speleothem based 1000-year high resolution record of Indian monsoon variability during the last deglaciation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 395, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Lone, Mahjoor Ahmad ^a   Ahmad, Syed Masood ^a   Dung, Nguyen Chi ^b   Shen, Chuan Chou ^b   Raza, Waseem ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Indian summer monsoon; Southern India; Speleothem; Termination 1a

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; HEINRICH EVENT; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; SUMMER; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 84891767336     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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