Climate-controlled multidecadal variability in North African dust transport to the Mediterranean

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-22

  Jilbert, Tom ^a   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a,b   Aeschlimann, Beat ^c   Günther, Detlef ^c   Boer, Wim ^d   de Lange, Gert ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN DUST; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; DUST SOURCES; DUST TRANSPORT; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EOLIAN DUST; HIGH RESOLUTION; LAMINATED SEDIMENTS; LARGE-SCALE TRANSPORT; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE DYNAMICS;

ABLATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CONTROL SURFACES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLASMA DEPOSITION; RESINS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DUST;

AIRFLOW; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; DEPOSITION; DUST; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESIN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 73849124340     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25287.1     Document Type: Article

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