Late quaternary vegetation history and climate change in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia

• Other Authors: Murad, Waheed
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: 610; 580; 38.21; 38.19; ggo; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl/?webdoc-3568; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-webdoc-3568-5; http://d-nb.info/1043029214/34

Southern Mongolia is a part of the arid to semiarid region of Central Asia and represents a transitional zone between the circulation systems of westerlies and associated North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Asian summer monsoon and the Mongolian High Pressure System (MHPS). The sedimentary records from this geographically important region are a central key to understand past vegetation and climate changes, owing to variations in the intensity of the interacting climate systems. It is imperative to understand the palaeoclimate dynamics and landscape development of arid Central Asia based on past vegetation history and to get a notion about the future environmental conditions under the ongoing Global change. The available palaeo-vegetation and palaeo-climate data from arid Central Asia are mainly conducted in Northwestern Mongolia and Northwestern China. The present research work focus on palaeo-ecological analyses of two lake archives of southern Mongolia (Bayan Tohomiin Nuur and Orog Nuur) . Sprache der Zusammenfassung: Englisch @Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2011 lzar: Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet