Megalake chad impact on climate and vegetation during the late Pliocene and the mid-Holocene

Climate of the Past

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1417-1430

  Contoux, C ^a,b   Jost, A ^b   Ramstein, G ^a   Sepulchre, P ^a   Krinner, G ^c   Schuster, M ^d  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; HABITAT TYPE; HOLOCENE; HOMINID; LAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PLIOCENE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHAD BASIN;

EID: 84881152316     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1417-2013     Document Type: Article

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