Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Archives and Proxies along the PEP III Transect....Pages 7-29
Oceanic Climate Variability at Millennial Time-Scales: Models of Climate Connections....Pages 31-44
Between Agulhas and Benguela: responses of Southern African climates of the Late Pleistocene to Current Fluxes, Orbital Precession and the Extent of the Circum-Antarctic Vortex....Pages 45-68
Holocene climatic trends and rhythms in southern Africa....Pages 69-91
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....Pages 93-116
Late Quaternary climatic variability in intertropical Africa....Pages 117-138
Decadal and century-scale climate variability in tropical Africa during the past 2000 years....Pages 139-158
Late Quaternary climate changes in the Horn of Africa....Pages 159-180
Palaeoenvironments, palaeoclimates and landscape development in Atlantic Equatorial Africa: a review of key sites covering the last 25 kyrs....Pages 181-198
Aspects of Nigerian coastal vegetation in the Holocene: some recent insights....Pages 199-218
Palaeoenvironmental changes in the arid and sub arid belt (Sahara-Sahel-Arabian Peninsula) from 150 kyr to present....Pages 219-256
Historical chronology of ENSO and the Nile flood record....Pages 257-278
Groundwater as an archive of climatic and environmental change: Europe to Africa....Pages 279-306
Mediterranean Sea palaeohydrology and pluvial periods during the Late Quaternary....Pages 307-324
Palaeoenvironmental changes in the Mediterranean region 250-10 kyr BP....Pages 325-341
Holocene climate, environment and cultural change in the circum-Mediterranean region....Pages 343-362
Speleothems as palaeoclimate indicators, a case study from Soreq Cave located in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Israel....Pages 363-391
Climatic and environmental variability in the Mid-Latitude Europe sector during the last interglacial-glacial cycle....Pages 393-416
Atlantic to Urals – the Holocene climatic record of Mid-Latitude Europe....Pages 417-442
Climate variability during the last interglacial-glacial cycle in NW Eurasia....Pages 443-464
Holocene climate dynamics in Fennoscandia and the North Atlantic....Pages 465-494
Recent developments in Holocene climate modelling....Pages 495-514
Evaluation of PMIP coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the Mid-Holocene....Pages 515-533
Famine, climate and crisis in Western Uganda....Pages 535-549
Palaeo-research in Africa: relevance to sustainable environmental management and significance for the future....Pages 551-565
Climate Variability in Europe and Africa: a PAGES-PEP III Time Stream I Synthesis....Pages 567-582
Climate Variability in Europe and Africa: a PAGES-PEP III Time Stream II Synthesis....Pages 583-603
Back Matter....Pages 605-638