Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the past 20,000 years

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7061, 2005, Pages 1003-1006

  Schefuß, Enno ^a,d   Schouten, Stefan ^b   Schneider, Ralph R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; LIPIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATIC CONTROLS; CLIMATIC PROCESSES; OCEAN CIRCULATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

HYDROLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIPID; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; QUATERNARY; RAINFALL;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL AFRICA; HYDROLOGY; LIPID COMPOSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 27144524113     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03945     Document Type: Article

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