Rainfall, spring discharge and past human occupancy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Climatic Change

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 769-789

  Peleg, Nadav ^a   Morin, Efrat ^a   Gvirtzman, Haim ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; ANNUAL RAINFALL; COMMUNITY SIZE; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; ECONOMIC STRENGTH; FINITE-ELEMENT; FLOW MODEL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; KARST TERRAINS; RECESSION CURVES; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SOCIETAL CHANGES; SPRING DISCHARGES;

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LANDFORMS; RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCHARGE; DROUGHT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KARST HYDROLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SPRING WATER;

ISRAEL; JUDEA; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84860891428     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0232-4     Document Type: Article

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