Carbon cycle, vegetation, and climate dynamics in the holocene: Experiments with the CLIMBER-2 model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 86-1-86-20

  Brovkin, Victor ^a   Bendtsen, Jørgen ^b   Claussen, Martin ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^a   Kubatzki, Claudia ^a   Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a   Andrev, Andrei ^c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; HOLOCENE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ORBITAL FORCING; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0002111694     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001gb001662     Document Type: Article

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