Modelling the impact of tectonics, surface conditions and sea surface temperatures on Saharan and sub-Saharan climate evolution

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 612-620

  Sepulchre, Pierre ^a   Ramstein, Gilles ^a   Schuster, Mathieu ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b IPHEP   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate modeling; East African Rift; Holocene; Lake Mega Chad; Miocene; Paleoclimate; Sahara; Sea Surface Temperatures; Sub Saharan; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIFT ZONE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPLIFT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70350045677     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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