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Cold and dry outbreaks in the eastern Mediterranean 3200 years ago

David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Rachid Cheddadi et al., 2019. Geology 47(10), 933–937.

Quantifies a 300-year dry, cool period starting about 3200 years ago in coastal Syria, with mean annual temperature anomalies of −2.3 to −4.8 °C and a 40% fall in winter rain.

MYS0D464EDY48B2 · mystery · click to copyMLate Bronze Age collapseArticledoi: 10.1130/G46491.1Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The magnitude estimate for the low-frequency climate shift.

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Kaniewski, D., Marriner, N., Cheddadi, R., Morhange, C., Bretschneider, J., Jans, G., Otto, T., Luce, F., & Van Campo, E. (2019). Cold and dry outbreaks in the eastern Mediterranean 3200 years ago. Geology 47(10), 933–937. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46491.1
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