Climatic imprint of the mid-latitude Westerlies in the Central Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and teleconnections to North Atlantic climate variability during the last 6000 years

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Lauterbach, Stefan, Witt, Roman, Plessen, Birgit, Dulski, Peter, Prasad, Sushma, Mingram, Jens, Gleixner, Gerd, Hettler-Riedel, Sabine, Stebich, Martina, Schnetger, Bernhard, Schwalb, Antje, Schwarz, Anja
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2014
• Subjects: North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683614534741; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683614534741; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683614534741

In general, a moderate drying trend is observed in mid-latitude arid Central Asia since the Mid-Holocene, attributed to the progressively weakening influence of the mid-latitude Westerlies on regional climate. However, as the spatio-temporal pattern of this development and the underlying climatic me...