Global-scale abrupt climate events and black swans: An ice-corederived palaeoclimate perspective from Earth's highest mountains

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 462, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 7-22

  Thompson, Lonnie G ^a,b   Mosley Thompson, Ellen ^a,b   Davis, Mary E ^a   Porter, Stacy E ^a   Kenny, Donald V ^a   Lin, Ping Nan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EL NINO; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GLACIER; ICE CORE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ASIA;

CYGNUS ATRATUS;

EID: 85050623211     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP462.6     Document Type: Article

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