Communications Earth & Environment (Mar 2022)
The unexpectedly short Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia
- Ina Neugebauer,
- Michèle Dinies,
- Birgit Plessen,
- Nadine Dräger,
- Achim Brauer,
- Helmut Brückner,
- Peter Frenzel,
- Gerd Gleixner,
- Philipp Hoelzmann,
- Kim J. Krahn,
- Anna Pint,
- Valérie F. Schwab,
- Anja Schwarz,
- Rik Tjallingii,
- Max Engel
Affiliations
- Ina Neugebauer
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg
- Michèle Dinies
- German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Scientific Department of the Head Office
- Birgit Plessen
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg
- Nadine Dräger
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg
- Achim Brauer
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg
- Helmut Brückner
- University of Cologne, Institute of Geography
- Peter Frenzel
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Earth Sciences
- Gerd Gleixner
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Research Group Molecular Biogeochemistry
- Philipp Hoelzmann
- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences
- Kim J. Krahn
- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication
- Anna Pint
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Earth Sciences
- Valérie F. Schwab
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Research Group Molecular Biogeochemistry
- Anja Schwarz
- Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute of Geosystems and Bioindication
- Rik Tjallingii
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg
- Max Engel
- Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00368-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The Holocene Humid Period in Northern Arabia may only have lasted for less than 1000 years and was characterised by substantial regional climatic variability, according to a high-resolution multi-proxy varved lake record from Tayma, Saudi Arabia.