Atmospheric circulation patterns in central and eastern Europe during the Weichselian Pleniglacial inferred from loess grain-size records

Quaternary International

Volumn 234, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 62-74

  Bokhorst, M P ^a   Vandenberghe, J ^a   Sumegi P ^b   Lanczont M ^c   Gerasimenko, N P ^d   Matviishina, Z N ^e   Markovic S B ^f   Frechen, M ^g  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^e INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA SET; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; LOESS; PALEOCLIMATE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WEICHSELIAN; WIND DIRECTION;

CARPATHIANS; EUROPE;

EID: 79951945102     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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