Last Glacial Maximum dune activity in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa: observations and simulations

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 301-307

  Chase, Brian M ^a,b   Brewer, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; DYNAMICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACTIVITY INDICES; AEOLIAN SYSTEMS; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATIC PARAMETERS; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES; ERODIBILITY; EROSIVITY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; LANDSCAPE FEATURES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUMS; MOBILISATION; MODEL OUTPUTS; MOISTURE BALANCES; QUANTITATIVE DATUM; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; ROUGH ESTIMATIONS; SAND DUNES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DUNE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; ERODIBILITY; EROSIVITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WIND VELOCITY;

AFRICA; KALAHARI DESERT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 59049107544     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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