Trends and oscillations in the Indian summer monsoon rainfall over the last two millennia

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sinha, Ashish ^a   Kathayat, Gayatri ^b   Cheng, Hai ^b,c   Breitenbach, Sebastian F M ^d,e   Berkelhammer, Max ^f   Mudelsee, Manfred ^g   Biswas, Jayant ^h   Edwards, R L ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^g ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^h National Cave Research and Protection Organization   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 18; RAIN;

AEROSOL; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION; OSCILLATION; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPELEOTHEM;

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CAVE; CIRCANNUAL RHYTHM; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; EXHAUST GAS; INDIAN; INDIAN OCEAN; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MOISTURE; OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

INDIA;

EID: 84923337059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7309     Document Type: Article

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