Enhanced recent local moisture recycling on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau deduced from ice core deuterium excess records

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 122, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 12,541-12,556

  An, Wenling ^a,b   Hou, Shugui ^a,c   Zhang, Qiong ^d   Zhang, Wangbin ^a   Wu, Shuangye ^a,e   Xu, Hao ^a   Pang, Hongxi ^a   Wang, Yetang ^f   Liu, Yaping ^g  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^f SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DEUTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXTREME EVENT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE CORE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85037376117     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027235     Document Type: Article

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