Southeast African records reveal a coherent shift from high- to low-latitude forcing mechanisms along the east African margin across last glacial-interglacial transition

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 125, Issue , 2015, Pages 117-130

  Chevalier, Manuel ^a   Chase, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; East Africa; Holocene; Insolation forcing; ITCZ; Palaeoclimatology; Pollen; Quaternary; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; REPAIR; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; EAST AFRICA; HOLOCENES; INSOLATION FORCING; ITCZ; PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY; POLLEN; QUATERNARY; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HOLOCENE; INSOLATION; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; LATITUDE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; RAINFALL; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROUGH;

INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 84939802322     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.009     Document Type: Article

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