El Nino/La Nina and Sahel precipitation during the middle Holocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-90

  Otto Bliesner, Bette L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HOLOCENE; LA NINA; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL; SEA ICE; SURFACE WATERS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; TELECONNECTIONS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032902024     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900236     Document Type: Article

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