Late Holocene plant and climate evolution at Lake Yoa, northern Chad: Pollen data and climate simulations

Climate of the Past

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1351-1362

  Lezine A M ^a   Zheng, W ^b   Braconnot, P ^a   Krinner, G ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESERT; HOLOCENE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

CHAD; LAKE YOA; SAHARA;

EID: 83255176442     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-7-1351-2011     Document Type: Article

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