The Late Miocene climate response to a modern Sahara desert

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 67, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 193-204

  Micheels, Arne ^a   Eronen, Jussi ^b   Mosbrugger, Volker ^a  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate modelling; Miocene; Neogene; North Africa; sensitivity experiment

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MIOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; PLIOCENE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 67349152405     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.02.005     Document Type: Article

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