The fluvial record of climate change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1966, 2012, Pages 2143-2172

  Macklin, M G ^a   Lewin, J ^a   Woodward, J C ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Floods; Fluvial sediments; Palaeohydrology; Rivers

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; FIELD STUDIES; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; HEINRICH EVENTS; HOLOCENES; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; MONSOON CIRCULATIONS; PALAEOHYDROLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER SYSTEMS; SOLAR FORCING; THREE TIME-SCALES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84859904808     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0608     Document Type: Article

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