Holocene climatic, hydrological and environmental oscillations in the tropics with special reference to Africa

Climate Change and Africa

Volumn 9780521836340, Issue , 2005, Pages 3-22

  Odada, Eric ^a   Olago, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION; WATER LEVELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; EARTH SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; LAND SURFACE ALBEDO; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL CONSISTENCY;

TROPICS;

EID: 70349523488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535864.011     Document Type: Chapter

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