Frequency-dependent landscape response to climatic forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 859-863

  Godard, Vincent ^a   Tucker, Gregory E ^b   Burch Fisher, G ^c   Burbank, Douglas W ^c   Bookhagen, Bodo ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; continental denudation; landscape evolution; numerical modelling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC SIGNALS; CONTINENTAL DENUDATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LATE CENOZOIC; PERIODIC OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL CONTENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); EROSION; LASERS; NUMERICAL MODELS;

SEDIMENTS;

CENOZOIC; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DENUDATION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PERIODICITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 84876798307     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50253     Document Type: Article

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