Extreme Warming in the African Tropics during the Mid-Holocene: Environmental Impacts and Causal Mechanisms

James M Russell1, Sylvia Dee2, Alice M Doughty3, Sloane Garelick2, Margaret S Jackson4, Meredith A Kelly4, Carrie Morrill5, Jamila Smith6, Nate Anderson4 and Bob Nakileza7, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, United States, (7)Makerere University, Mountain Resource Centre, Kampala, Uganda