Environmental reconstruction and climate modelling of the Late Quaternary in the winter rainfall region of the Western Cape, South Africa

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 98, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 611-616

  Barrable, A ^a   Meadows, M E ^a   Hewitson, B C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION;

SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 0036880898     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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