Hydrological variability in the Northern Levant: A 250 ka multiproxy record from the Yammoûneh (Lebanon) sedimentary sequence

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1261-1284

  Gasse, F ^a   Vidal, L ^a   Develle, A L ^a,d   Van Campo, E ^b,c  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c Université de Toulouse   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CARBONATE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; FOREST; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; INSOLATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER STORAGE; WETTING;

BEQAA; LEBANON; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; YAMMOUNEH;

EID: 82155171315     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1261-2011     Document Type: Article

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