Abrupt changes in Indian summer monsoon strength during 33,800 to 5500years B.P.

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 5526-5532

  Dutt, Som ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a,b   Clemens, Steven C ^c   Cheng, Hai ^d,e   Singh, Raj K ^f   Kathayat, Gayatri ^d   Lawrence Edwards, R ^e  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of Minnesota   (United States)

^f INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR   (India)

Author keywords

Indian summer monsoon; Mawmluh Cave; oxygen isotopes; precipitation; speleothem

Indexed keywords

CAVES; DIGITAL STORAGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; MONSOON STRENGTH; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEASONAL CHANGES; SPELEOTHEM; SUMMER MONSOON PRECIPITATION; SUMMER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ALLEROD; BOLLING; HEINRICH EVENT; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPELEOTHEM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; YOUNGER DRYAS;

INDIA; MEGHALAYA;

EID: 84938216885     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064015     Document Type: Article

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