Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 391, Issue , 2014, Pages 171-182

  Prasad, Sushma ^a,c   Anoop, A ^a   Riedel, N ^b   Sarkar, S ^c   Menzel, P ^d   Basavaiah, N ^e   Krishnan, R ^f   Fuller, D ^g   Plessen, B ^a   Gaye, B ^d   Rohl U ^h   Wilkes, H ^a   Sachse, D ^c   Sawant, R ⁱ   Wiesner, M G ^d   Stebich, M ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^f INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

ⁱ Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

Author keywords

ENSO; Holocene; Indian summer monsoon; Lonar Lake; Prolonged droughts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894072666     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.043     Document Type: Article

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