@inbook{6ebc21c4295d4a5eb08406155abd9446,
title = "Climate deterioration and angkor{\textquoteright}s demise",
abstract = "Reconstruction of the paleoclimate based on analyses of annually laminated sediments in Japan and moat sediments from Angkor Thom in Cambodia indicates that there had been a period of drastic cooling during AD 1430–1500 accompanied by a weakening of monsoon activity. The annual mean temperatures show that—compared to the peak of medieval warm epoch around AD 1150—the mean temperature dropped by nearly 5°C in AD 1430. The climatic cooling brought about the weakening of the summer monsoon, which in turn would have resulted in the delayed arrival of the wet season. This might have had a catastrophic impact on rice cultivation in Cambodia leading to the decline of the Khmer Civilization.",
keywords = "Annually laminated sediments, Climate deterioration, Demise of the angkorian civilization, Monsoon activities",
author = "Yoshinori Yasuda and Hiroo Nasu and Toshiyuki Fujiki and Kazuyoshi Yamada and Junko Kitagawa and Katsuya Gotanda and Shuichi Toyama and Mitsuru Okuno and Yuichi Mori",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Japan 2013.",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-4-431-54111-0_10",
language = "English",
series = "Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
number = "9784431541103",
pages = "331--362",
booktitle = "Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research",
edition = "9784431541103",
}