Making sense of millennial-scale climate change

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 112, Issue , 1999, Pages 385-394

  Alley, R B ^a   Clark, P U ^b   Keigwin, L D ^c   Webb, R S ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0006083432     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM112p0385     Document Type: Chapter

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