Soil feedback drives the mid-Holocene North African monsoon northward in fully coupled CCSM2 simulations with a dynamic vegetation model

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 791-802

  Levis, Samuel ^a   Bonan, Gordon B ^a   Bonfils, Céline ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NORTH AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 12744253965     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-004-0477-y     Document Type: Article

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