A reassessment of lake and wetland feedbacks on the North African Holocene climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Krinner, G ^a   Lezine A M ^b   Braconnot, P ^b   Sepulchre, P ^b   Ramstein, G ^b   Grenier, C ^b   Gouttevin, I ^a,c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; LAKES; WETLANDS;

HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; LARGE PARTS; MODEL STUDY; OPEN WATER SURFACE; PRECIPITATION RATES; SAHARA REGION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; DESERT; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LAKE WATER; OPEN WATER; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE WATER; VEGETATION HISTORY; WETLAND;

NORTH AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 84859387696     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL050992     Document Type: Review

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