Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming || Index
β Scribed by Battarbee, Richard W.; Binney, Heather A.
- Publisher
- Wiley Blackwell
- Year
- 2008
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISBN
- 1405159057
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β¦ Synopsis
abrupt climate change 246 impacts 232 land-cover change 233, 247 mechanisms 232 probability 232 abrupt unprecedented and persistent (AUP) episodes 5, 256 acid rain 31 advective time constant 131 7-aerosol forcing 174 anthropogenic 168 aerosols 167-8, 174 concentration 29 formation 155 Africa 208-9 850 BC event 153-4 arid areas 65-6 aridity maximum 210 drought 211-12, 211, 217-19 dry-humid transitions 205-6, 216 equatorial 213, 217-19, 220 lake stratigraphy 206, 210 Little Ice Age 212-14 moisture balance reconstructions 213, 214 pollen records 210 rainfall record 211, 211 rainforest 153-4 tropical 205-14 vegetation reconstructions 212 see also North Africa; West Africa
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