Simulating the transient evolution and abrupt change of Northern Africa atmosphere-ocean-terrestrial ecosystem in the Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 13-14, 2007, Pages 1818-1837

  Liu, Z ^a   Wang, Y ^a   Gallimore, R ^a   Gasse, F ^b   Johnson, T ^c   deMenocal, P ^d   Adkins, J ^e   Notaro, M ^a   Prentice, I C ^f   Kutzbach, J ^a   Jacob, R ^g   Behling, P ^a   Wang, L ^a   Ong, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CEREGE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

COASTAL UPWELLING; ECOSYSTEM MODELS; SURFACE COOLING; TRANSIENT SIMULATIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVOLUTION; HOLOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 34547468270     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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