Land surface feedbacks and palaeomonsoons in northern Africa

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3615-3618

  Brostrom A ^a,c   Coe, M ^a   Harrison, S P ^b   Gallimore, R ^b   Kutzbach, J E ^a   Foley, J ^a   Prentice, I C ^b   Behling, P ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION; WETLANDS; WIND;

LAND SURFACE FEEDBACKS; PALAEOMONSOONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032193766     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02804     Document Type: Article

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