Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6768, 2000, Pages 410-414

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a,b   Lalrd, Kathleen R ^c   Cumming, Brian F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; RAINFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; DISASTER; HISTORY; LAND USE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TROPICS;

AFRICA, EASTERN; CULTURE; DIATOMS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; KENYA; NATURAL DISASTERS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANTS; RAIN; WEATHER;

AFRICA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI;

EID: 0034719447     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35000179     Document Type: Article

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