The Mediterranean hydrologic budget from a Late Miocene global climate simulation

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 254-267

  Gladstone, Rupert ^a   Flecker, Rachel ^a   Valdes, Paul ^a   Lunt, Dan ^a,b   Markwick, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General circulation models; Late Miocene; Mediterranean; Messinian Salinity Crisis; North Africa; Rivers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELING; HYDROLOGY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MIOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SALINITY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHAD BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34447253119     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.050     Document Type: Article

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