Paleomonsoon Variations and Terrestrial Environmental Change
This special issue includes 18 articles based on papers presented by internationally renown quaternarists at the Berlin (1995) and Siwa (1997) "Paleomonsoons" meetings. It is a contribution to the Paleomonsoons Project of INQUA and PAGES, in coordination with several other international programmes such as the Pole-Equator-Pole Transects (PEP I–III), the International Decade of East African Lakes (IDEAL) and the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP).
> Paleomonsoon variations and terrestrial environmental change during the late Quaternary [p.vii]
Kröpelin S & Petit-Maire N
> Holocene palaeoclimates in northwestern Sudan: stable isotope studies on molluscs [p.1]
Abell PI & Hoelzmann P
> Modern and palaeo-modelling in the Great Sand Sea of Egypt (initial results from the Cologne Cooperative Research Project 389) [p.13]
Besler H
> Pollen-inferred precipitation time-series from equatorial mountains, Africa, the last 40 kyr BP [p.25]
Bonnefille R & Chalié F
> Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum African monsoon changes as simulated within the Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project [p.51]
Braconnot P, Joussaume S, Noblet Nd & Ramstein G
> Loess accumulation and soil formation in Kaokoland (Northern Namibia) as indicators of Quaternary climatic change [p.67]
Brunotte E & Sander H
> Site-specific high-resolution models of the monsoon for Africa and Asia [p.77]
Bryson RA & Bryson RU
> Factors favouring precipitation in North Africa: seen from the viewpoint of present-day climatology [p.85]
Geb M
> Holocene non-orbital climatic events in present-day arid areas of northern Africa and China [p.97]
Guo Z, Petit-Maire N & Kröpelin S
> Precipitation estimates for the eastern Saharan palaeomonsoon based on a water balance model of the West Nubian Palaeolake Basin [p.105]
Hoelzmann P, Kruse H-J & Rottinger F
> The nature of rainfall variability over Africa on time scales of decades to millenia [p.137]
Nicholson SE
> Long-term temporal characteristics of palaeomonsoon dynamics in equatorial Africa [p.159]
Olago DO, Street-Perrott FA, Perrott RA, Ivanovich M, Harkness DD & Odada EO
> The Pleistocene/Holocene transition in South Africa: evidence for the Younger Dryas event [p.173]
Abell PI & Plug I
> Seasonality in the early Holocene climate of Northwest Sudan: interpretation of Etheria elliptica shell isotopic data [p.181]
Rodrigues D, Abell PI & Kröpelin S
> Abrupt retreat of summer monsoon at the S1/L1 boundary in China [p.189]
Rousseau D-D & Kukla G
> The terrestrial mollusks as new indices of the Asian paleomonsoons in the Chinese loess plateau [p.199]
Rousseau D-D, Wu N & Guo Z
> Evidence for environmental conditions during the last 20 000 years in Southern Africa from 13C in fossil hyrax dung [p.207]
Scott L & Vogel JC
> Processes controlling trace element geochemistry of Arabian Sea sediments during the last 25,000 years [p.217]
Sirocko F, Garbe-Schönberg D & Devey C
> Late Quaternary environments in the White Nile region, Sudan [p.305]
Williams MAJ, Adamson D, Cock B & McEvedy R