Volcanic dry fogs, climate cooling, and plague pandemics in Europe and the Middle East

Climatic Change

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 713-723

  Stothers, Richard B ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOG; HEALTH IMPACT; PALEOCLIMATE; VOLCANIC GAS;

EUROPE; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0032856662     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005480105370     Document Type: Article

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