North Atlantic influence on 19th-20th century rainfall in the Dead Sea watershed, teleconnections with the Sahel, and implication for Holocene climate fluctuations

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 27-28, 2010, Pages 3843-3860

  Kushnir, Yochanan ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; COLD AIR OUTBREAK; CYCLOGENESIS; DEAD SEA; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; HYDROCLIMATIC; HYDROCLIMATIC VARIABILITY; IN-PHASE; JERUSALEM; LAKE LEVELS; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHASE RELATIONSHIPS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PRESSURE ANOMALY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUB-SAHARAN; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LANDFORMS; RAIN; SEA LEVEL; TIME MEASUREMENT; WATERSHEDS;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HOLOCENE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATERSHED; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); DEAD SEA; ERITREA; NORTH AMERICA; SAHEL [ERITREA];

EID: 78549241586     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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