Late Holocene precipitation variability in the summer rainfall region of South Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 105-120

  Stager, J Curt ^a,b   Ryves, David B ^c   King, Christiaan ^a,i   Madson, Jerome ^a,d   Hazzard, Matthew ^a,e   Neumann, Frank H ^f,g   Maud, Rodney ^h  

^a PAUL SMITH S COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Lincoln College of New England   (United States)

^e not available   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^h not available   (South Africa)

ⁱ not available   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diatoms; Holocene; ITCZ; Lake Sibaya; Paleoclimatology; Paleolimnology; South Africa; Speleothem; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ISOTOPES; LAKES; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RAIN;

DIATOMS; HOLOCENES; ITCZ; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DIATOM; LITTLE ICE AGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RESOLUTION; SPELEOTHEM; STABLE ISOTOPE; SUMMER;

KWAZULU-NATAL; LAKE SIBAYA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84874807824     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.01.022     Document Type: Article

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