Three million years of monsoon variability over the northern Sahara

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 689-698

  Larrasoana, J C ^a   Roberts, A P ^a   Rohling, E J ^a   Winklhofer, M ^a   Wehausen, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITION; DUST; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; MONSOON; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 0242607992     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0355-z     Document Type: Article

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