Paleoclimate data constraints on climate sensitivity: The paleocalibration method

Climatic Change

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-184

  Covey, Curt ^a   Sloan, Lisa Cirbus ^b   Hoffert, Martin I ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALAEOCALIBRATION METHOD; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOCLIMATE DATA;

EID: 0029667463     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00143708     Document Type: Article

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