Response to Engel et al. (in press): Lakes or wetlands? A comment on “The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons” by Enzel et al. (2015)
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Acknowledgments
We thank the two anonymous reviewers who wrote an in depth evaluation of the comment by Engel et al. (in press) and our response in addition to the article in question (Enzel et al., 2015). They raised valuable points, which improved the discussion.
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