Hydroclimate variability of the northwestern Amazon Basin near the Andean foothills of Peru related to the South American Monsoon System during the last 1600 years

Climate of the Past

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1967-1981

  Apaestegui J ^a,c   Cruz, F W ^b   Sifeddine, A ^c,f   Vuille, M ^d   Espinoza, J C ^a,e   Guyot, J L ^g   Khodri, M ^c,f   Strikis, N ^b   Santos, R V ^h   Cheng, H ^i,j   Edwards, L ^j   Carvalho, E ^h   Santini, W ^g  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AGRARIA LA MOLINA   (Peru)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^g Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

ⁱ XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

AMAZONAS [PERU]; PALESTINE; PERU;

EID: 84913595068     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-1967-2014     Document Type: Article

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