The effect of climate change on the mobility and stability of coastal sand dunes in Ceará State (NE Brazil)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-226

  Tsoar, Haim ^a   Levin, Noam ^b   Porat, Naomi ^c   Maia, Luis P ^d   Herrmann, Hans J ^e   Tatumi, Sonia H ^f   Claudino Sales, Vanda ^g  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d Instituto de Ciencias do Mar   (Brazil)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f FACULDADE DE TECNOLOGIA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal sand dunes; Mobility; NE Brazil; Stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; DUNE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WIND POWER;

BRAZIL; CEARA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 60549112991     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

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