A high-resolved record of the Asian Summer Monsoon from Dongge Cave, China for the past 1200 years

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 122, Issue , 2015, Pages 250-257

  Zhao, Kan ^a   Wang, Yongjin ^a   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Cheng, Hai ^b,c   Liu, Dianbing ^a   Kong, Xinggong ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian Summer Monsoon; China; Dongge Cave; Past millennium; Stalagmite; 18O

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CAVES; ISOTOPES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE WATERS;

ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; CHINA; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; PAST MILLENNIUM; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; STALAGMITE; SUMMER MONSOON PRECIPITATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STALAGMITE; SUMMER;

CHINA; DONGGE CAVE; GUIZHOU;

EID: 84931270775     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.030     Document Type: Article

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