Late Holocene climates of the Near East deduced from Dead Sea level variations and modern regional winter rainfall

Quaternary Research

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-273

  Enzel, Yehouda ^a   Bookman, Revital ^a,b   Sharon, David ^a   Gvirtzman, Haim ^a   Dayan, Uri ^a   Ziv, Baruch ^a,c   Stein, Mordechai ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Israel Geological Survey   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Dead Sea; Drought; Eastern Mediterranean; History; Holocene; Hydrology; Lake level; Paleoclimate; Rainfall; Water resources

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0346317253     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2003.07.011     Document Type: Article

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