Fully coupled climate/dynamical vegetation model simulations over Northern Africa during the mid-Holocene

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 561-573

  Doherty, R ^a   Kutzbach, J ^b   Foley, J ^b   Pollard, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

(NORTH); AFRICA;

EID: 0033842630     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820000065     Document Type: Article

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