Rainfall regimes of the Green Sahara

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Tierney, Jessica E ^a   Pausata, Francesco S R ^b   De Menocal, Peter B ^c  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DUST; RAIN; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; VEGETATION;

FUTURE CLIMATE; HUMAN POPULATION; MARINE SEDIMENTS; RAINFALL RATES; RAINFALL REGIME; SAHARA DESERT; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; WET CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85020697794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601503     Document Type: Article

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