A 250-Year Isotopic Proxy Rainfall Record from Southern Botswana

Woodborne, Stephan; Hall, Grant; Jones, Connor W.; Loader, Neil; Patrut, Adrian; Patrut, Roxana T.; Robertson, Iain; Winkler, Stephan R.; Winterbach, Christiaan W.

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2018.1.09

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A 250-Year Isotopic Proxy Rainfall Record from Southern Botswana

Stephan Woodborne, Grant Hall, Connor W. Jones, Neil Loader

, Adrian Patrut, Roxana T. Patrut, Iain Robertson

, Stephan R. Winkler, Christiaan W. Winterbach

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 109 - 123

Swansea University Authors: Neil Loader , Iain Robertson

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Climate records along aridity gradients where manifestations of climate change are most profound are important for testing climate models. The Kalahari Transect spans such a gradient, but instrumental records of climate parameters are limited in the sparsely populated region. We analysed the δ13C an...

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A 250-Year Isotopic Proxy Rainfall Record from Southern Botswana

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