Late Holocene climate change in the North Atlantic and equatorial Africa: Millennial-scale ITCZ migration

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Russell, James M ^a,b   Johnson, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN;

AFRICA; HIGH-LATITUDE CLIMATE EVENTS; HOLOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27544475468     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023295     Document Type: Article

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