Paleoprecipitation estimates for the Lake Naivasha basin (Kenya) during the last 175 k.y. using a lake-balance model

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 117-136

  Bergner, A G N ^a   Trauth, M H ^a   Bookhagen, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

East Africa; Hydrologic modeling; Paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAKE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

KENYA;

EID: 0037373446     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00178-9     Document Type: Article

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