Coherent pan-Asian climatic and isotopic response to orbital forcing of tropical insolation

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 11,997-12,020

  Battisti, D S ^a   Ding, Qinghua ^a   Roe, G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSOLATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LAND SURFACE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; STALAGMITE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA;

EID: 84913529761     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021960     Document Type: Article

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