Studying Africa's hydroclimate history over the last 2000 years
| dc.contributor.author | De Cort, G. | |
| dc.date | 2016 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-14T13:06:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-14T13:06:28Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/11603 | |
| dc.description | 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. | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.title | Studying Africa's hydroclimate history over the last 2000 years | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.subject.frascati | Earth and related Environmental sciences | |
| dc.audience | Scientific | |
| dc.subject.free | Surface environments and collection management | |
| dc.source.title | Afrika Focus | |
| dc.source.volume | 29(2) | |
| dc.source.page | 101-108 | |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | No | |
| dc.identifier.rmca | 4856 |
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