Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the last ice age

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6043, 2011, Pages 743-747

  Wolff, Christian ^a,b   Haug, Gerald H ^b,c   Timmermann, Axel ^d   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^e,f   Brauer, Achim ^a   Sigman, Daniel M ^g   Cane, Mark A ^h   Verschuren, Dirk ⁱ  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

ⁱ GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOODING; FOOD SECURITY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EL NINO; FOOD SECURITY; GLACIAL PERIOD; LAKE SEDIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

KENYA;

EID: 79961241131     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1203724     Document Type: Article

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