Mid-latitude interhemispheric hydrologic seesaw over the past 550,000 years

Nature

Volumn 508, Issue 7496, 2014, Pages 378-382

  Jo, Kyoung Nam ^a   Woo, Kyung Sik ^b   Yi, Sangheon ^a   Yang, Dong Yoon ^a   Lim, Hyoun Soo ^c   Wang, Yongjin ^d   Cheng, Hai ^e,f   Edwards, R Lawrence ^f  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^c Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; INSOLATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ORBITAL FORCING; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGY; LATE QUATERNARY; LATITUDE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WATER CYCLE; WATER VAPOR;

BRAZIL; CHINA; KOREA; NORTHEAST ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CLIMATE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HYDROLOGY; ICE COVER; KOREA; PACIFIC OCEAN; RAIN; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84898990813     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13076     Document Type: Article

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