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Science 7 December 1979:
Vol. 206. no. 4423, pp. 1178 - 1179
DOI: 10.1126/science.206.4423.1178
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Discharge of the Nile River: A Barometer of Short-Period Climate Variation

HERBERT RIEHL 1 and JOSÉ MEITÍN 1

1 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309

Eight events of climate variation with durations of the order of 100 years have been found in the history of annual Nile River discharge dating from the year 622. They cease during the "little climatic optimum" in the North Atlantic and then reappear and intensify; this behavior suggests that control is from the belt of the polar westerlies.

Submitted on May 25, 1979


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