Monsoon Climate of the Early Holocene: Climate Experiment with the Earth's Orbital Parameters for 9000 Years Ago
- 2 October 1981
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4516), 59-61
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4516.59
Abstract
Values for the precession and obliquity of the earth 9000 years ago indicate that the global average solar radiation for July 9000 years ago was 7 percent greater than at present. When the estimated solar radiation values are used in a low-resulation climate model, the model simulates an intensified continent-scale monsoon circulation. This result agrees with paleoclimatic evidence from Africa, Arabia, and India that monsoon rains were stronger between 10,000 and 5000 years ago than they are today.Keywords
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