Dust flux estimates for the Last Glacial Period in East Central Europe based on terrestrial records of loess deposits: A review

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 23-24, 2010, Pages 3157-3166

  Újvári, Gábor ^a   Kovács, János ^b   Varga, György ^b   Raucsik, Béla ^c   Marković, Slobodan B ^d  

^a GEODETIC AND GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARPATHIAN BASIN; CENTRAL EUROPE; DIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; DUST FLUX; DUST PARTICLE; DUST SOURCES; FIELD MODEL; GAIN INSIGHT; GLACIAL PERIOD; GLOBAL MODELS; GRAIN SIZE MEASUREMENT; INDIRECT RADIATIVE FORCING; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LAST GLACIAL PERIOD; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MASS ACCUMULATION RATES; MEAN VALUES; MINERAL AEROSOLS; MINERAL DUST; MODEL SIMULATION; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RECENT PROGRESS; REGIONAL PATTERN; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE COOLING; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; DEPOSITS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MINERALS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SILICATE MINERALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

DUST;

CHRONOLOGY; DUST; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; LAST GLACIAL; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOESS; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; RADIATIVE FORCING;

CARPATHIAN BASIN;

EID: 77957366846     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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