Mid-Holocene land-surface conditions in northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula: A data set for the analysis of biogeophysical feedbacks in the climate system

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-51

  Hoelzmann, P ^a,b   Jolly, D ^a   Harrison, S P ^a   Laarif, F ^a   Bonnefille, R ^c,d   Pachur, H J ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Institut Français Pondicherry   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOPHYSICAL FEEDBACK; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALAEOCLIMATE;

AFRICA, (NORTH); MIDDLE EAST, ARABIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 0031872353     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GB02733     Document Type: Article

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