Variability of North African hydroclimate during the last two climatic cycles: New insights from dust flux and provenance

Charlotte Skonieczny1, David McGee2, Aloys J-M Bory3, Gisela Winckler4, Louisa I Bradtmiller5, Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles6, Jeffrey Perala-Dewey7, Marion Delattre6, Christopher William Kinsley8, Pratigya J Polissar4 and Bruno Malaizé9, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)Université de Lille, UMR 8187 CNRS-Lille-ULCO, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (4)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)Macalester College, Department of Environmental Studies, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (6)Université de Lille, Département des Sciences de la Terre, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, (7)Utah State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Logan, UT, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (9)University Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, EPOC, UMR 5805, Pessac, France