Latitudinal Linkages in Late Holocene Moisture-Balance Variation

Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming: A Holocene Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 189-231

  Verschuren, Dirk ^a   Charman, Dan J ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Challenges to proxy data integration; Flood records and long term hydrologic change; Glacier mass balance variations; Integration of paleohydrologic data across sites; Latitudinal linkages in moisture balance variation; Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA); Millennial scale moisture balance variation through holocene; Peatland surface wetness changes; Regional integration of proxy records; Time scales of hydrologic links between Europe and Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889841991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300932.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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