Century to Millenium-Scale Variability of the Indian        Monsoon Over the Past 40,000 Years
{'Code': '06020106', 'Directorate': {'LongName': 'Directorate For Geosciences'}, 'Division': {'LongName': 'Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences'}}
{'SignBlockName': 'Jay S. Fein'}
Documenting the variability in climate on the century and                  millenial time scales remains an important goal because this                    frequency band is the least understood of the climate system.                   The goal of this project is to characterize the variability in                  monsoonal upwelling during the last 40,000 years at these high                  frequencies.  The approach uses standard techniques: a                          terrestrial pollen indicator of monsoons and a marine                           foraminiferal indicator of monsoons will be measured in samples                 from a very high sedimentation rate core recovered on the Oman                  margin.  Chronological control will be obtained from high                       precision radiocarbon measurements.  The results of this project                will provide us with important information on the frequency and                 variability of climate change in the tropics.  When compared with               other tropical and extratropical paleoclimate records, a more                   complete picture of century and millenial climate variability                   will emerge.
{'FirstName': 'Jonathan', 'LastName': 'Overpeck', 'EmailAddress': 'jto@email.arizona.edu', 'StartDate': '12/15/1988', 'EndDate': None, 'RoleCode': 'Principal Investigator'}
{'Name': 'Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory', 'CityName': 'Palisades', 'ZipCode': '10964', 'PhoneNumber': '9143592900', 'StreetAddress': 'Rt 9W', 'CountryName': 'United States', 'StateName': 'New York', 'StateCode': 'NY'}
{'Code': '5740', 'Text': 'CLIMATE & LARGE-SCALE DYNAMICS'}
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