Effects of large volcanic eruptions on global summer climate and east asian monsoon changes during the last millennium: Analysis of MPI-ESM simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 7394-7409

  Man, Wenmin ^a   Zhou, Tianjun ^a   Jungclaus, Johann H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Paleoclimate; Volcanoes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; LAST MILLENNIUMS; PALEOCLIMATES; SUMMER CLIMATE; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

AMPLITUDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CHINA;

EID: 84907588556     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00739.1     Document Type: Article

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