Indian monsoon variability on millennial-orbital timescales

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kathayat, Gayatri ^a   Cheng, Hai ^a,b   Sinha, Ashish ^c   Spötl, Christoph ^d   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Zhang, Haiwei ^a   Li, Xianglei ^a   Yi, Liang ^e   Ning, Youfeng ^a   Cai, Yanjun ^f   Lui, Weiguo Lui ^f   Breitenbach, Sebastian F M ^g,h  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e Tongji University   (China)

^f Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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EID: 84969674392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24374     Document Type: Article

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