Ice core records of climate variability on the Third Pole with emphasis on the Guliya ice cap, western Kunlun Mountains

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 188, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-14

  Thompson, Lonnie G ^a,b   Yao, Tandong ^c   Davis, Mary E ^a   Mosley Thompson, Ellen ^a,b   Wu, Guangjian ^c   Porter, Stacy E ^a   Xu, Baiqing ^c   Lin, Ping Nan ^a   Wang, Ninglian ^d   Beaudon, Emilie ^a   Duan, Keqin ^e   Sierra Hernández, M Roxana ^a   Kenny, Donald V ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Glaciology; Ice cores; Monsoon; North Atlantic; Paleoclimatology; Present; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLES; SNOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATERS;

CHINA; GLACIOLOGY; HIMALAYAS; ICE CORE; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRESENT; STABLE ISOTOPES; THIRD POLES;

ICE;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; CRYOSPHERE; GLACIOLOGY; ICE CORE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE; WESTERLY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CHINA; GULIYA ICE CAP; HIMALAYAS; INDIAN OCEAN; KUNLUN MOUNTAINS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG;

EID: 85044124490     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.003     Document Type: Review

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