Climate variability at the southern boundaries of the Namib (southwestern Africa) and Atacama (northern Chile) coastal deserts during the last 120,000 yr

Quaternary Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-309

  Stuut, Jan Berend W ^a   Lamy, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aridity; Atacama Desert; Chile; End member modeling; Grain size; Late Quaternary; Namib Desert; Southern Westerlies; Southwestern Africa

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; WESTERLY;

AFRICA; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NAMIB DESERT; NAMIBIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ATACAMA;

EID: 8644230998     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2004.08.001     Document Type: Article

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