The transition of the monsoonal and the N Atlantic climate system off NW Africa during the Holocene

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Kuhlmann, Holger ^a   Meggers, Helge ^a   Freudenthal, Tim ^a   Wefer, Gerold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1635 Global Change: Oceans (4203); 1812 Hydrology:Drought; 1854 Hydrology; 3344 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Paleoclimatology; Precipitation (3354)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIALS; NORTH ATLANTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WEST AFRICAN MONSOON;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

FEEDBACK MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; INTERGLACIAL; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 14044251365     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021267     Document Type: Article

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