Combined statistical and dynamical assessment of simulated vegetation-rainfall interactions in North Africa during the mid-Holocene

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 347-368

  Notaro, Michael ^a   Wang, Yi ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^a   Gallimore, Robert ^a   Levis, Samuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate model; Evapotranspiration; Grassland; Mid Holocene; Monsoon; North Africa

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 41549135896     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01495.x     Document Type: Article

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