Forcing of wet phases in southeast Africa over the past 17,000 years

Enno Schefuß (), Holger Kuhlmann, Gesine Mollenhauer, Matthias Prange and Jürgen Pätzold
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Enno Schefuß: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Holger Kuhlmann: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Gesine Mollenhauer: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Matthias Prange: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Jürgen Pätzold: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, D-28359 Bremen, Germany

Nature, 2011, vol. 480, issue 7378, 509-512

Abstract: A continuous record of hydrologic variability for the past 17,000 years at the mouth of the Zambezi River shows that hydrologic conditions in southeast Africa were controlled by variations in local insolation and migrations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone, rather than by Indian Ocean temperature.

Date: 2011
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