Significant recent warming over the northern Tibetan Plateau from ice core δ18O records

Climate of the Past

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 201-211

  An, W ^a   Hou, S ^a,e   Zhang, W ^a   Wang, Y ^b   Liu, Y ^c   Wu, S ^a,d   Pang, H ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; GLOBAL WARMING; HIATUS; ICE CORE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84957809519     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-201-2016     Document Type: Article

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