The Last Glacial Maximum climate over Europe and western Siberia: A PMIP comparison between models and data

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-43

  Kageyama, M ^a   Peyron, O ^b,e   Pinot, S ^a   Tarasov, P ^c,d   Guiot, J ^b   Joussaume, S ^a   Ramstein, G ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^e CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; QUATERNARY;

EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0001969891     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003820000095     Document Type: Article

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