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Dust deposits give new insights into the history of the Sahara
Millennial-scale fluctuations in Saharan dust supply across the decline of the African Humid Period

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    July 19, 2017
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    Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
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    Remote Saharan dust influences Earth's radiation budget and tropical North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere temperature variability that might even attenuate Hurricane activity. In a new research study an international team of geoscientists reconstructed the history of Saharan dust storms during the last 12,000 years. The researchers identified several millennial-scale phases of enhanced Saharan dust supplies during the transition of the former 'green Sahara' to the present-day hyper-arid desert.
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Re: Dust deposits give new insights into the history of the Sahara
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2017, 08:31:39 pm »
12,000 year study of computer-generated pseudodata?

12,000 years ago Lake Victoria dried up completely.  Today's Amazon rainfall is enabled by dust from the Sahara arriving on high-altitude winds.
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