Umfang:
XXV, 638 S.
ISBN:
1402021208
Serie:
Developments in paleoenvironmental research 6
Inhalt:
Table of Contents: List of contributors. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Archives and proxies along the PEP III Transect. - 3. Oceanic climate variability at millennial time-scales: models of climate connections. - 4. Between Agulhas and Benguela: responses to Southern African climates of the Late Pleistocene to current fluxes, orbital precession and the extent of the Circum-Antarctic vortex. - 5. Holocene climatic trends and rhytms in southern Africa. - 6. Diatom productivity in Northern Lake Malawi during the past 25,000 years: implications for the position of the intertropical convergence zone at millennial and shorter time scales. - 7. Late Quaternary climatic variability in intertropical Africa. - 8. Decadal and century-scale climate variability in tropical Africa during the past 2000 years. - 9. Late Quaternary climate changes in the Horn of Africa. - 10. Palaeoenvironments, palaeoclimates and landscape development in Atlantic Equatorial Africa: a review of key sites covering the last 25 kyrs. - 11. Aspects of Nigerian coastal vegetation in the Holocene: some recent insights. - 12. Palaeoenvironmental changes in the arid and sub arid belt (Sahara-Sahel-Arabian Peninsula) from 150 kyr to present. - 13. Historical chronology of ENSO and the Nile flood record. - 14. Groundwater as an archive of climatic and environmental change: Europe to Africa. - 15. Mediterranean Sea palaeohydrology and pluvial periods during the Late Quaternary. - 16. Palaeoenvironmental changes in the Mediterranean region 250 - 10 kyr BP. - 17. Holocene climate, environment and cultural change in the circum-Mediterranean region. - 18. Speleothems as palaeoclimate indicators, a case study from Soreq Cave located in the Eastern Mediterrranean Region, Israel. - 19. Climatic and environmental variability in the Mid-Latitude Europe sector during the last interglacial-glacial cycle. - 20. Atlantic to Urals - the Holocene climatic record of Mid-Latitude Europe. - 21. Climate variability during the last interglacial-glacial cycle in NW Eurasia. - 22. Holocene climate dynamics in Fennoscandia and the North Atlantic. - 23. Recent developments in Holocene climate modelling. - 24. Evalution of PMIP coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the Mid-Holocene. - 25. Famine, climate and crisis in Western Uganda. - 26. Palaeo-research in Africa: relevance to sustainable environmental management and significance for the future. - 27. Climate variability in Europe and Africa: a PAGES-PEP III Time Stream I Synthesis. - 28. Climate variability in Europe and Africa: a PAGES-PEP III Time Stream II Synthesis. - List of abbreviations. - General index. - Geographical index. - Appendix
Anmerkung:
MAB0014.001: AWI G5-02-0132-6
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MAB0014.002: M 07.0018
In:
Developments in paleoenvironmental research
