Nonlinear detection of paleoclimate-variability transitions possibly related to human evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 51, 2011, Pages 20422-20427

  Donges, Jonathan F ^a,b   Donner, Reik V ^a,c   Trauth, Martin H ^d   Marwan, Norbert ^a   Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim ^a   Kurths, Jürgen ^a,b,e  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African climate; Climate driven evolution; Dynamical transitions; Nonlinear time series analysis; Plio pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GLACIATION; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NORTH AFRICA; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PALEONTOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855494898     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117052108     Document Type: Article

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