East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Fahu ^a   Xu, Qinghai ^b   Chen, Jianhui ^a   Birks, H John B ^c,d,i   Liu, Jianbao ^a   Zhang, Shengrui ^b   Jin, Liya ^a   An, Chengbang ^a   Telford, Richard J ^c   Cao, Xianyong ^b   Wang, Zongli ^a   Zhang, Xiaojian ^a   Selvaraj, Kandasamy ^e   Lu, Houyuan ^f   Li, Yuecong ^b   Zheng, Zhuo ^g   Wang, Haipeng ^a   Zhou, Aifeng ^a   Dong, Guanghui ^a   Zhang, Jiawu ^a   Huang, Xiaozhong ^a   Bloemendal, Jan ^h   Rao, Zhiguo ^a   more..

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84934989048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11186     Document Type: Article

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