Eemian and Early Weichselian temperature and precipitation variability in northern Germany

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 25-28, 2007, Pages 3311-3317

  Kühl, Norbert ^a   Litt, Thomas ^a   Schölzel, Christian ^a   Hense, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FOSSIL FUELS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); VEGETATION;

CLIMATE SYSTEMS; GLACIAL CLIMATES; MACROFOSSILS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EEMIAN; ICE CORE; INTERGLACIAL; INTERSTADIAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WEICHSELIAN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 36849006978     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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