Climate change in northern Africa: The past is not the future

Climatic Change

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 99-118

  Claussen, Martin ^a,b   Brovkin, Victor ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^a   Kubatzki, Claudia ^a   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

CLIMATE SYSTEM MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION COVER;

(NORTH); AFRICA;

EID: 0037371003     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022115604225     Document Type: Article

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