Holocene river behaviour in New Zealand: Response to regional centennial-scale climate forcing

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 69, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-27

  Richardson, J M ^a   Fuller, I C ^a   Macklin, M G ^b   Jones, A F ^b   Holt, K A ^a   Litchfield, N J ^c   Bebbington, M ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate; Flooding; Holocene; New Zealand; River activity; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTATION; HOLOCENES; NEW ZEALAND; PALAEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; RELATIVE PROBABILITY; SYNOPTIC CONDITIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DEFORESTATION; FLOODS; OIL WELL FLOODING; SEDIMENTATION;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; DATABASE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROBABILITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84875789123     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.021     Document Type: Article

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