Plio-Pleistocene African Climate

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Monsoon variability over the past 150,000 years

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Impact of the North African drought and El Niño on mineral dust in the Barbados trade winds

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Abrupt post-glacial climate events in West Asia and North Africa monsoon domains

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Glacial and interglacial wind regimes over the eastern subtropical Atlantic and North-West Africa

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Abrupt climate fluctuations in the tropics: the influence of Atlantic Ocean circulation

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Ecological and temporal placement of early Pliocene hominids at Aramis, Ethiopia

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The role of ocean-atmosphere reorganizations in glacial cycles

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Surface water response of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean to orbital forcing

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The arid–humid transition in the Sahara and the Sahel during the last deglaciation

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Evidence for a change in the periodicity of tropical climate cycles at 2.4 Myr from whole-core magnetic susceptibility measurements

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A Study of the Southern Oscillation and Walker Circulation Phenomenon

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Atmospheric summer circulation and coastal upwelling in the Arabian Sea during the Holocene and the last glaciation

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Water-level fluctuations of Lake Tanganyika in phase with oceanic changes during the last glaciation and deglaciation

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Dust Concentration in the Atmosphere of the Equatorial North Atlantic: Possible Relationship to the Sahelian Drought

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Eolian Evidence for Spatial Variability of Late Quaternary Climates in Tropical Africa

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African mean wind changes between sahelian wet and dry periods

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Influences of High‐ and Low‐Latitude Processes on African Terrestrial Climate: Pleistocene Eolian Records from Equatorial Atlantic Ocean Drilling Program Site 663

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Effect of drought on dust production in the Sahel

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Cultural beginnings: Plio-Pleistocene archaeological occurrences from the Afar, Ethiopia

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Evidence for a cooler and drier climate in the Ethiopian uplands towards 2.5 Myr ago

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Sensitivity of Asian and African climate to variations in seasonal insolation, glacial ice cover, sea surface temperature, and Asian orography

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Earliest Homo

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Palynology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of a pliocene hominid site (2.9-3.3 M.Y.) at Hadar, Ethiopia

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