Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation in the mid-Holocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 2037-2040

  Claussen, Martin ^a,c   Kubatzki, Claudia ^a   Brovkin, Victor ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^a   Hoelzmann, Philipp ^b   Pachur, Hans Joachim ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ORBITS; SEA ICE; VEGETATION; ARID REGIONS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE; ATMOSPHERE-VEGETATION FEEDBACKS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EARTH'S ORBIT; HOLOCENES; HUMAN SOCIETY; LAST GLACIAL; TIGRIS RIVERS; DESERTIFICATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 0032741657     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900494     Document Type: Article

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