Studying Africa's hydroclimate history over the last 2000 years
Authors
De Cort, G.
Discipline
Earth and related Environmental sciences
Subject
Surface environments and collection management
Audience
Scientific
Date
2016Metadata
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Water-resource availability is one of the most important environmental factors on which Africa s agricultural societies are reliant. However, our knowledge of the natural background variability of rainfall and drought over Africa is currently still inadequate to allow a full grasp of the relevant climate-dynamical mechanisms and guidance of much-needed forecasts of future trends. This report presents two new efforts to improve insights into how hydroclimate has varied throughout the continent over the past two millennia. Firstly, a thorough synthesis of data from instrumental measurements, historical accounts and natural climate archives resulted in an extensive review of Africa s hydroclimate history. Secondly, the focus is narrowed to East Africa, where the sediments of hypersaline Lake Bogoria were used to reconstruct how a variable climate has driven large lake-level fluctuations over the last 1,300 years.
Citation
De Cort, G. (2016). Studying Africa's hydroclimate history over the last 2000 years. , Afrika Focus, Vol. 29(2), 101-108,Identifiers
Type
Article
Peer-Review
No
Language
eng