Observations on Late Pleistocene cooling and precipitation in the lowland Neotropics

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 677-684

  Bush, Mark B ^a   Silman, Miles R ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Climate change; Cold fronts; Convection; Ice age; ITCZ; Precipitation; Radiative cooling; Trade wind

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12444339472     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.883     Document Type: Article

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