Twentieth century dust lows and the weakening of the westerly winds over the Tibetan Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2434-2441

  Grigholm, B ^a   Mayewski, P A ^a   Kang, S ^b,c   Zhang, Y ^b   Morgenstern, U ^d   Schwikowski, M ^e   Kaspari, S ^f   Aizen, V ^g   Aizen, E ^g   Takeuchi, N ^h   Maasch, K A ^a   Birkel, S ^a   Handley, M ^a   Sneed, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^h CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

atmospheric circulation; atmospheric dust; climate proxy; glaciochemistry; ice cores; paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALCIUM; ICE; METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; CLIMATE PROXIES; GLACIOCHEMISTRY; ICE CORE; PALEOCLIMATES;

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DUST; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WESTERLY; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84928697803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063217     Document Type: Article

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