Hydroclimate variability in the low-elevation Atacama Desert over the last 2500 yr

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 287-306

  Gayo, E M ^a,b   Latorre, C ^a,b   Santoro, C M ^c,d   Maldonado, A ^e,f   De Pol Holz, R ^g,h  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

^d Centro de Investigaciones Del Hombre Del Desierto (CIHDE)   (Chile)

^e CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^f DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DRAINAGE; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIMESCALE;

ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

RODENTIA;

EID: 84858828931     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-287-2012     Document Type: Article

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